What Is It With Us

What is it with us, what’s broken inside?

We build something good then twist it sideways

A man with a dream and healing hands

Made a gun to end wars faster than they began

Said if battle got too awful maybe men would stop

But the rivers just ran redder when the bullets dropped

Every time we reach for heaven

We drag hell along somehow

We light a torch against the darkness

Then burn another village down

What is it with us?

Why do we poison every well?

Turn every blessing into another version of hell

We split the atom for the future

For the cities and the stars

But before we lit one home

We used it to scar the world apart

Will we ever learn to love more than our greed?

If history’s any judge

Not without something bigger than me

Computers came to save us time

Now everybody’s running harder just to survive

Connected every soul on earth

Yet loneliness might be the thing that hurts the worst

Now AI writes songs and helps a child learn

But somewhere a scammer’s stealing what an old man earned

Every tool becomes a weapon

In the wrong set of hands

Seems like kindness fights uphill

While evil rides in on demand

What is it with us?

Why do we poison every well?

Turn every blessing into another version of hell

We cure disease and feed the hungry

Still let children cry alone

We got machines that touch the moon

But can’t take care of our own

Will we ever reach a day

We choose each other over greed?

If history’s any judge

Not without something bigger than me

Maybe that’s the truth nobody wants to face

We can’t save ourselves by ourselves anyway

Cause the problem ain’t the metal or the wires or the flame

It’s the selfish little kingdom buried in our veins

What is it with us?

Still I believe there’s something more

Why else do we ache for justice we’ve never seen before?

Maybe someday love will matter

More than power, pride, or fame

Maybe hearts can finally change

And we stop passing down the blame

But if we ever build a world

Where mercy’s stronger than our greed

It won’t be because we stumbled there

It’ll be because we learned we need

Something higher than ourselves

To become what we were meant to be