To Be Human Is to Be Inhuman Lyrics

History is littered with mankind's atrocities
Learning to kill each other with greater velocity
The endless struggle to fulfill needs and desires
Everyone is capable of intolerance and violence

In ancient fields and country plains
Crowded cities filled with remains
Fighting throughout history
Ancient battles for supremacy

From tribal warriors fighting with hands and spears
To nations torturing and starving millions of their peers
Humanity has been an example of hatred
This is how our species has been bred

Slaughter on a massive scale
It's the strong who prevail

Bodies of captives and slaves
Lie in legions of graves
In the ground and deep in caves
Death comes in waves

Conquer, control and exert dominance
To help keep society homogenous
Stand in solidarity to destroy all the others
Help kill their sons and rape their mothers

Way before Rome in ancient lands
Lay slaughtered bodies rotting in sand
Now living in the modern era
The number dead is no better

A single person may be horrible or pleasant
But grouped together hatred becomes present
People banded together in a tribe or nation
Ultimately causes others to suffer deprivation

Slaughter on a massive scale
It's the strong who prevail

Bodies of captives and slaves
Lie in legions of graves
In the ground and deep in caves
Death comes in waves

Countless examples of the atrocities of man
From the largest nations to the smallest clan
Committing torture rape murder and slavery
Heinous acts mistaken as bravery

Encoded in our offspring
Time will not change a thing
Inhumanity in our past
Forever it will last

Where there are humans there is suffering
Gorging upon corpses recurring
Growing off of pain and misery
It was and always shall be