Sinew - Contrast lyrics

So damned cold is this night But so am I As a human being I am denied You are what you can buy I'd rather be dead than live up to this lie Something has to be done You say things have to change? But please, not too much now I want to uphold what we call 'secure' It cannot be so wrong To live on the safe side Better to use than become used There is nothing for free I rise with the challenge 'til I'm on my feet The view is so good when you're not on your knees The solutions start with questioning Solutions that we need? For problems I can't see Hey, I'm not the one who caused the alarm Swimming with the stream? This nature of the things I say For the river runs only in one way But the river's running dry Maybe yours but not mine See, we're in this together No, you're not like my kind I'm not to blame for your weakness Without a less there's not a more Your richness causes poverty What should I care for? We run down a descending spiral, running out of time And growth rates aren't endless But still it's working out for me Inside you're empty I've got everything I need But your money can't buy happiness You're just a huge amount of zeroes You're a huge zero Call me weak you think you're strong, right? But you don't know sh** what it's like To stand for something that you never have understood – 'cause you never asked why Every day I have to justify the things I say Every day I keep on strugglin' for a better way With your back against the wall, you would feel lonely, too But I stay human in contrast to you You stand for nothing And nothing stands for you You stand for nothing No one will stand by you All I try is to stay human in contrast to you