Divided by Elsewhere Lyrics
Deep down, if you could only feel it deep down
You are detached from feeling love
Leaving this emptiness to overwhelm
And you fear what you can’t comprehend so you run away
And hide in your complacency
Believing that you’re isolated
I feel categorized by all the things I haven’t done
Separated into expectations based on things I can’t control
Boundaries mean nothing when they’re undefined
And I refuse to let preconceptions influence what I think of you
It’s hard to see your true colors when you live in black and white
Am I dyed in the wool, is it so easy to pick me apart?
Am I dyed in the wool, because to me we’re both members of the same flock
I thought we had so much potential but complacency got the best of us
And I know that there will be loss but we can’t stay in the same place
Division only creates emptiness
But compassion and acceptance can bring us back again
It’s not me versus you, and it never was us versus them
The only difference was the time it took for you to understand
You can’t imprison our differences, you can’t divide us up by land
And I feel like you are living in fear
Letting boundaries of color, color your perception
And maybe that’s why I’m living in a box
Afraid of what you’ll think of me, because people are so quick to judge
The differences that make us who we are
Are so often held against us
Just because there’s been one wolf in wool
It doesn’t mean we all have fangs
Only by insisting on uniting can we be whole again
Division only creates emptiness
But there is empathy in me, not apathy
You are detached from feeling love
Leaving this emptiness to overwhelm
And you fear what you can’t comprehend so you run away
And hide in your complacency
Believing that you’re isolated
I feel categorized by all the things I haven’t done
Separated into expectations based on things I can’t control
Boundaries mean nothing when they’re undefined
And I refuse to let preconceptions influence what I think of you
It’s hard to see your true colors when you live in black and white
Am I dyed in the wool, is it so easy to pick me apart?
Am I dyed in the wool, because to me we’re both members of the same flock
I thought we had so much potential but complacency got the best of us
And I know that there will be loss but we can’t stay in the same place
Division only creates emptiness
But compassion and acceptance can bring us back again
It’s not me versus you, and it never was us versus them
The only difference was the time it took for you to understand
You can’t imprison our differences, you can’t divide us up by land
And I feel like you are living in fear
Letting boundaries of color, color your perception
And maybe that’s why I’m living in a box
Afraid of what you’ll think of me, because people are so quick to judge
The differences that make us who we are
Are so often held against us
Just because there’s been one wolf in wool
It doesn’t mean we all have fangs
Only by insisting on uniting can we be whole again
Division only creates emptiness
But there is empathy in me, not apathy