Do You Know a Human Being When You See One? Songtext
von Alabaster dePlume

You know who you are
You where you belong
You know when you see a good reason
You know when you don′t see none
Do you know a human being when you see one?

Yes, there's a drake on the street somewhere
The big, bad machine
There was a body, where has it gone?
Do you know a human being when you see one?

You know what you grew up knowing
You know where you′re coming from
You know what you feel like doing
When you feel like someone is wrong
Do you know a human being when you see one?


Could you mistake them for something else?
Something less
Something not bad but not as good
Something human, but not human
Like human levels, levels of human
Levels of human, levels-

It happens, you know
It happens, you know
And you don't have to be got-paid to do that

I've done it, I′ve done it
I′ve looked at someone and said
Not with my voice, not with my heart, but somewhere dark
Dark at the back of my head

I've looked at someone and I′ve said
"You don't
You don′t, you don't
You don′t count"

There is it but
There it is, my favorite
But it is not my voice and I'm not a monster
Yet

I'm not a monster yet
I′m not a monster yet
I mean, I don′t think so
But you tell me


I believe
I believe
I believe, you know
I believe, you know
I believe you know a human being when you see one