To Be Human

The pagodas and the palaces
 Dressed in gold leaf, hide the damages
 Spot the Geisha as she balances
 Life's a cakewalk full of challenges
 Go to Russia, see the Red Square
 Lenin's body lying dead there
 From Kyoto, Hiroshima
 Watch the black cloud crawling nearer
 There were riots in America
 Just when things were getting better
 All the things I've done and seen
 Still I don't know what life means
 All the people living in
 Living in the world today
 We're united by our love
 We're united by our pain
 Ooh, all the things that I've done and I've seen
 Still I don't know, don't know what it means
 Fly to Athens, past the Parthenon
 See the village where my father's from
 To Chicago from Angola
 São Paulo to Verona
 And anywhere you go, you see
 People are just like you and me
 All the things I've done and seen
 Still I don't know what life means
 All the people living in
 Living in the world today
 We're united by our love
 We're united by our pain
 Ooh, all the things that I've done and I've seen
 Still I don't know, don't know what it means
 To be human
 Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
 Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
 Still I don't know, don't know what it means
 To be human, a real human being
 I like to think about how we all look from afar
 People driving fancy cars look like beetles to the stars
 The missiles and the bombs sound like symphonies gone wrong
 And if there is a God, they'll know why it's so hard
 To be human
 Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
 Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
 To be human
 Still I don't know, don't know what it means
 To be human, a real human being
 (To be human) I want connection, ooh
 I wanna feel human again
 (To be human) Lost my direction, ooh
 I wanna feel human again
 To be human
 To be human
 To be human
 To be human