Understand It Lyrics

Eager hand shot toward the rafters Sunday afternoon

A child's curiosity, you know how it consumes

A question bright and innocent

But blasphemous in nature

Is swiftly met with ridicule and excessive anger

The only answer for the child

For that's how he commands it

You are only human, you cannot understand it

First match struck from out that box

Would burn a wicked flame

Wanting truthful answers

without the knowing pains

I cast aside my empathy

With the Ten Commandments

To analyze the world I saw

So I could understand it

Cassiopeia glittered north

Beyond the great divide

And each tiny thing enraging me

Was small against that sky

If they were small then I was small

I took that thought and banned it

And shrank the universe's size

So I could understand it

I wrecked every portrait and every sympathetic view

To cast myself into a dark where I was misconstrued.

And in the end, do I respect the reason I began it?

To bench myself in my own life

So I could understand it?

Does richness live in greatness or does richness live in heart?

And if variance means vulnerable

Then I've gotten a false start

I squandered the most precious thing that I was ever handed

When I gave up living in the world

So I could understand it