Sensible Utility Lyrics

I saw this little kid staring dead out through my screen, looking for a way to make her hunger end

Scenes from some forgettable and foreign continent, clearly playing for my sympathy

I felt a slight discomfort as I flipped the channel off

Like a lurking question still remained

I passed a homeless man sitting broken on the street without shelter, folded hands, begging for change

Bloodshot eyes and troubled thoughts inside his bloated head, but nothing a steady job wouldn’t fix

I felt a slight discomfort as I looked the other way

Like a lurking question still remained

We’ve got to fucking help them, don’t we?

What kind of humans are we if we don't?

We got to fucking help them, don’t we?

But we can't save the whole world on our own

One of my old friends came by my house the other day looking for a way out of his problems

Bad decisions and bad luck had caught him in a ditch but I didn’t see how that would concern me

I felt a slight discomfort as my door slammed in his face

Like a lurking question still remained

We got fucking help them don’t we...?

Do we really share a common bound

just because we share the same genome?

How close do our problems need to be

Before they can make us feel?