This isn't the final version of this as I still need a real guitar player to fill in my electric parts (in the works, I already have a guy) and I need my friend Rhubarb to play the horns AND I need the keyboard switched out BUT I JUST CAN'T HOLD THIS IN anymore.

I wrote this song in late November of 2016 and it's as close as I've come recently to a protest song.
It's supposed to be in the style of a contemporary worship song.

I hope it isn't too preachy.

Lyrics:

Like everyone else

When I was younger I would need 10 sugars tryna
get my coffee down.
Go to sleep at half past 3 when I could pass out.
10 years workin at that dream,
Stop wanting as much of the sugar and cream.
The bitterness dulls the edge and you can get to sleep by 10.

Chorus:
We all, keep sayin that we won't get caught like everyone else (like everyone else)
We all, keep sayin that we won't get old like everyone else (like everyone else)
Snowflakes tend to melt.
Your cracks, they tend to swell.
Before too long in a mirror you see everyone else.

I used to laugh when my old man, couldn't race me up a hill
Or when my mother would tell me to take it slow
Now I'm dreamin of a made up past
Wishin that time didn't kill so fast
Sarcastically askin where have all the soldiers gone.

Chorus 2:
They all, keep sayin that we won't get caught like everyone else (like everyone else)
They all, keep sayin that it won't get old like everyone else (like everyone else)
Make them "great" again
And we'll forget it's all pretend.
And before too long we believe that it’s everyone else.

Bridge:
I was made to believe we're all uniquely human
I'm finding out exactly what that means
There is no other being with such capacity for compassion.
Or such capacity for doing harm.

SOLO

When I was younger I believed that we were all of equal worth.
And in the end we'd all be fine if we did what's right.
That the deck's not stacked and we could be whatever we want in the land of the free but I
See things every day that I just can't accept.

Chorus 3

And I'll keep saying that I'll never end up like everyone else (like everyone else)
And I'll keep sayin that I'll never give up like everyone else (like everyone else)
Fear won't ever go
So let everybody know

That you won't keep quiet and you won't sit down
That we're all from somewhere but we're from here now
That you don't need to step on me to feel great
That you got enough love to take on the hate
That you'll be the change that you want to see
That I'll look out for you and you'll look out for me
That we won’t give up and will not be moved
we've taken on worse and we don't plan to lose

Oh how great the sorrow.
Oh how great the pain.
When I wake up tomorrow.
I will go to work again.
I will go to work again.
I will go to work again.