Story Behind The Song

I wrote this song one afternoon in my living room. I was thinking about how everything that seemingly divides us as culture is the same thing that unites us, but no one can see that because we are too near sided. Everyone is so busy looking for how we are different, rather than how we are the same. And that really bothers me, so I wrote a song to call us out as a society that we are not seeing the whole picture, because we are too small to even comprehend even what we truly are.

Song Description

This is an anti-discrimination song using a litany of various binary relationships to illustrate our unity.

Lyrics

There's a man or woman
either good or bad
either black or white
maybe gay or straight
Christian or other
who's early or late
and does it fucking matter

Why? won't you step away from the picture
Time... will make you so near-sighted
Fine...go on and look, it all splits in half
Your mind will believe it's something different

There's a woman or man
either rich or poor
could be short or tall
pretty or ugly
nice or mean
clean or dirty
quiet or RAR!

Why? won't you step away from the picture
Time... will make you so near-sighted
Fine...go on and look, it all splits in half
Your mind will believe it's something different (Shut up and Listen)
You believe it's something different
But we're all the same
It's all the same
Shut up and listen!


Why? won't you step away from the picture
Time... will make you so near-sighted
Fine...go on and look, it all splits in half
Your mind will believe it's something different
(There is always)
someone who is smart or stupid
(left or right)
in front or behind who either loves or hates
(this world enough)
to make it seem like it's divided

We're all the same.
It's all the same.
Shut up and listen!