People Only Listen When It Looks Good

Check my phone, all I see are made up faces, perfect bodies

And a few thousand likes on a picture of somebody

Dressed up in designer

‘Cause when you look good, people buy your message

Forget your truth, forget your charities

We're busy worshipping celebrities

And spending all our time and cash

Trying to keep up with Kardashians

And listening to music about girls and getting wasted

So why are the people being heard

Always the people with the emptiest words

And nothing, nothing to say?

‘Cause there is wisdom that can change the world

And truth that takes a lifetime to learn

In the voices, voices that aren't being heard

‘Cause people only listen when it looks good

Yeah, these songs I write aren't hits

But they sure as hell are honest

And I'm struggling to have

My words listened to or noticed

‘Cause I won't sell my soul

And I don't wanna take my clothes off

And if Jesus did come back

I think He'd probably have to have

A pretty face, a pretty car

A pretty Instagram at that

Just to get some damn attention

To get everyone to listen

So why are the people being heard

Always the people with the emptiest words

And nothing, nothing to say?

‘Cause there is wisdom that can change the world

And truth that takes a lifetime to learn

In the voices, voices that aren't being heard

‘Cause people only listen when it looks good