A Species Lacking lyrics

We call human what is no longer human Empathy was the first scarce resource Money came first you know how it is When your neighbor is a cost and not a bond The earthling who calls himself civilized Stepped on the sick to get ahead And the speech of unity was delivered By those who were never on the same side only Hell didn't come from outside Hell was the others and it was us The pandemic only unveiled the dawn Of a humanity that lived in two A species lacking in itself A species lacking in compassion Money comes first and the rest is left Waiting for a second incarnation How many died alone and the market opened How many were buried without a name or a witness The stock market rose and the cemetery ground vanished Under the weight of those who will never amount to anything And then we returned and pretended everything was normal As if the intermission were just a technical pause We learned nothing we only learned the vanity Of calling what was anesthesia overcoming Hell didn't come from outside Hell was the others and it was us The pandemic merely unveiled the dawn Of a humanity that lived in two A species lacking its very self A species lacking compassion Money comes first and the rest is left Waiting for a second incarnation Humans Are we Humans? Or earthlings with bank accounts Who confuse surviving with living And walk right over others without looking Because lookingcosts Nietzsche warned: When God dies We must create our own values But we chose the market and money takes over What we should be but we are lesser beings A species lacking in itself A species lacking in compassion Money comes first and the rest is left Waiting for a second incarnation A species lacking A species lacking