The pagodas
and the palaces
Dressed in gold leaf
hide the damages
Spot the Geisha
as she balances
Life's a cakewalk
full of challenges
Go to Russia
see the Red Square
Lenin's body
lying dead there
From Kyoto Hiroshima
Watch the black cloud
crawling nearer
There were riots
in America
Just when things
were getting better
All the things
I've done and seen
Still I don't know
what life means
All the people living in
Living in the world today
We're united by our love
We're united by our pain
Ooh all the things that
I've done and I've seen
Still I don't know
don't know what it means
Fly to Athens
past the Parthenon
See the village
where my father's from
To Chicago
from Angola
São Paulo to Verona
And anywhere you go
you see
People are just
like you and me
All the things
I've done and seen
Still I don't know
what life means
All the people living in
Living in the world today
We're united by our love
We're united by our pain
Ooh all the things that
I've done and I've seen
Still I don't know
don't know what it means
To be human
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh oh-oh
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh oh-oh
Still I don't know
don't know what it means
To be human
a real human being
I like to think about
how we all look
from afar
People driving fancy cars
look like beetles
to the stars
The missiles and the bombs
sound like symphonies
gone wrong
And if there is a God
they'll know
why it's so hard
To be human
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh oh-oh
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh
To be human
Still I don't know
don't know what it means
To be human
a real human being
I want connection ooh
I wanna feel human again
Lost my direction ooh
I wanna feel human again
To be human
To be human
To be human
To be human