Now We Know

We stare, we stare, we're staring in a hole
We sink, we sink, now we're sinking so low
We fare, we fare, we're not faring real well
We drink, we drink, drank from a bad well
We dare, we dare,  dared the mental blow
We think, we think, thought we'd just go
Now see, we see, we saw we didn't know  

Now we know
We're infinite at the exact same time we're finite
We're small yet so big when we endeavor to unite
Our race races to fill up spaces when we leave them empty
Then we join up to blow up and we relish our own audacity
We crave the kind of power that destroys our own treasures
We brave the horrors of battle then recoil from its pressures
We extend a hand to make a stand against gross injustice
Then pretend we're blind and deaf to refute what truth is

We find, we find, it's now that we're finding
reality isn't as carefree as it once used to be
Though they weep they sleep, we're not sleeping
and see our dreams aren't materializing as readily

We realize, we realized, now we're freaking
Life isn't riding so smoothly right about now
They dream, we scream, we're just not believing
Not living  for the same reasons we used to now

We know and wish we didn't know what we're about
We saw too much and wish we hadn't figured us out
We'd forget but can't erase what's imprinted in there
The world is so damn busy it's too distracted to care

We must come to terms with the undeniable fact that
Each passing day brings us that much closer to our last
We must accept we’re responsible for this broken place
We must acknowledge we all leave some kind of trace

Some of us disintegrate at entirely different rates
Some of us are never taught how to lovingly relate

Some of us hover within the shadows of giants
Some of us retaliate by inciting incendiary riots
Some of us bulldoze over the footsteps of giants