Jeremy Facknitz

Lyrics

“USED TO BE HUMAN”
(Lyrics and music by Jeremy Facknitz)

1. The end of the war meant a new dawn for man
so they knocked up their wives and rebuilt Japan
And in the burrow of Queens on a warm day in June
came the fourth of five kids with his own silver spoon

Despite all the riches and cups runneth over
his vast fields of gold filled with four-leaf clover
your boy had an ocean of empty to fill
and an empire poised for the top of the hill

Do you see? Do you see?
Just because he was born with a penthouse view
doesn’t mean he ain’t human too
He used to be human

2. He grew up a narcissist prone to delusion
which echoes his country’s most desperate illusions
So swing wide the doors and hand him the keys
to wreak all the havoc he damn well please

I hear you laugh as I swim in rough water
It’s the tears of my wife and my sister and daughter
You rack up his wins as we sit at a loss
as to how “We The People” could do this to us

Do you see? Do you see?
Just because he burns me doesn't mean he saves you
I thought you were human too
I used to see you as human

3. At best I go numb, keep my anger sedated
At worst I’m a monster like those we’ve created
I’ll confess dreams that stir my own soul
of a man-made man crucified on a pole
He’s a pumpkin-head scarecrow in an ill-fitted suit
and I’m smashing his skull ‘neath the heel of my boot
I eat all his innards and bury his seeds
10 miles deep ‘neath a deathbed of weeds
In a hell of my choosing, he’ll writhe and he’ll wallow
and for all that I care you and yours can go follow

But do you see? My god, do you see?
Before this not-so-cold war ‘tween the red and blue
I used to be human too
I used to be human