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Artist: MARINA
Canonical path: /marina-and-the-diamonds/to-be-human
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To Be Human
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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To Be Human
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The pagodas and the palaces dressed in gold leaf
Hide the damages
Spot the Geisha as she balances
Life’s a cakewalk, full of challenges
Go to Russia, see the Red Square
Lenin's body lying dead there
From Kyoto, Hiroshima
Watch the black cloud crawling nearer
There were riots in America
Just when things were getting better
All the things I've done and seen
Still I don't know what life means
All the people living in
Living in the world today
We're united by our love
We're united by our pain
All the things that I've done and I've seen
Still I don't know, don't know what it means
Fly to Athens, pass the Parthenon
See the village where my father's from
To Chicago, from Angola
São Paulo to Verona
And anywhere you go, you'll see
People are just like you and me
All the things I've done and seen
Still I don't know what life means
All the people living in
Living in the world today
We're united by our love
We're united by our pain
All the things that I've done and I've seen
Still I don't know, don't know what it means
To be human
Still I don't know, don't know what it means
To be human, a real human being
I like to think about, how we all look from afar
People driving fancy cars
Look like Beatles to the stars
The missiles and the bombs
Are like symphonies gone wrong
And if there is a God, they'll know why it's so hard
To be human
To be human
Still, I don't know, don't know what it means
To be human, a real human being
(To be human)
I want a connection
I wanna feel human again
(To be human)
Lost my direction
I wanna feel human again
To be human, to be human
To be human, to be human
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