Social Animals - Arrowhead

If you only listen with half an ear, you only have a quarter of the right to

criticise

So sit down, shut up and listen

It’s been a hell of a ride through the past few years

I’ve fought, conquered and gained new fears

I’ve been built up, broken and rebuilt again

We’re all in this together, in the lions den

It seems the worlds run by crazy people

With no one to stand up for the weak and feeble

The racists from the history books are out in the streets

Spouting hate disguised as free speech

Think this is peace?

Get informed

We’re more divided than ever before

It’s a wild, wild world, we don’t trust one another

We’re social animals but we’re eating each other

So much time spent on our phones

Hundreds of «friends,» but we feel so alone

We give the stage to those with no love in their hearts

Then we act surprised when the fires start

At each other’s throats, coming to a head

My newsfeed says we’ll all soon be dead

Threats of war being thrown around

But I’ll believe it when the lights go down

This isn’t peace, get informed

This is a different kind of war

Does it feel familiar, have you seen it before?

Have we travelled back to 1964?

Hurtling towards this inevitable end

It’s now more than ever that we need friends

The good times will come, we’ll lift the curse

But before this gets better, it’s gonna get worse

We live in a culture that’s growing more and more narcissistic everyday.

We judge our value based on how many likes a photo gets on our Instagram

account and compare ourselves to celebrities whose heights we could never hope

to reach

And while we strive for some semblance of fulfilment in this digital wasteland,

we ignore the real problems.

Outside in the streets people call for the

slaughter of those who they disagree with, calling for blood and oil,

threatening to send us back in time to an age where we didn’t know any better

Those people are living in a world that has long since past, and they can do

two things.

They can either adapt to the new world, or they can be destroyed

Violence, war, prejudice in the streets

Will nothing change till someone bleeds?

Strip back our disguise, we’re all the same

Social animals, igniting a flame

Where do you stand?

Who do you believe?

Do you stay at home watching it on TV?

Will you defend your flag under attack?

Or will you stand and salute the red, white and black?

And from the ashes let it rise

Something new before our eyes

Let it rise, let it rise

We’ve gone too far, let the past die