Human (lyrics and music by C.R.Lewis) (Sung by the Hunchback:) Who's the one? Tell me, who decides Who gets to belong, who has to stay outside In the rain, yeah and it can pour Who's calling out the names Before they close that door All my life I've paid a debt I never made Why not you? What did I ever do? Always made to suffer persecution just for Being not like you I'm Human, but I ask myself do I want to be Human, if you call this humanity Little minds, fed on spite Full of fear, shut down tight Comfortable with cruelty With no idea of what it means to be Human-Human-Human Who's the one? Tell me who decides Who gets to be born, and who has to die? Is it fair that some won't live While others choose to waste All they've got to give? Pass around that slightly soured Cup of Human Kindness Yeah, and God Bless Throw the dog its crumb, your charity is done, it's mindless Blindness I'm Human, I live, I breathe, I need, I dream I'm Human, I hide, I cry, I sin, I scream I sometimes wonder what you could want You have everything that I don't And still consumed with a deathless greed You're all compelled to see me bleed It's Inhuman, Inhuman Sometimes I think that I'll get away From this agony But it only goes on and on and on And in this nightmare I am alone There's one thing I can thank you for I don't envy you, no not anymore What I've seen has frightened me And my own ugliness is just skin-deep I'm Human, but I ask myself do I want to be Human, if you call this Humanity Somewhere within your secret soul You must suspect, you must know That the things you do, that you believe Are so beneath what I conceive To be Human-Human-Human

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