"Celebrities"

Celebrities
Are people I know that have never heard of me
I know who they're with and what they're doing
All because I saw them in a movie

Celebrities
Are people we hold to a high degree
Because they're beautiful and good at acting
We see them crying, we see them laughing

So I'll put them on a pedestal
Anticipating when they'll fall
Again and again
And again

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Human
Human beings
Voyeuristic politics
Of the television screen
With souls
And hearts still beating
Not until we see the blood
Do we think that they're bleeding too

Celebrities
Are people I've seen that have never seen me
Yet I see their whole lives on a tv screen
Change the channel when I'm through with watching

Lives on display
So that I might be entertained
For only a moment
Until that moment fades away

[chorus]
Human
Human beings
Voyeuristic politics
Of the television screen
With souls
And hearts still beating
Not until we see the blood
Do we believe that they're bleeding too
Then is it too late to undo?

Our lives
Are not commodities
Not a show that you watch
Not a dumb romantic comedy
This is it, this is life
You're really here, you are alive
And there's nothing more beautiful
Than every second that you're breathing

Human
Human beings
We are human
We are human beings