Hard Patterns
[Verse 1]
I've been touched by many men
And I truly take offense
At words expressed by poets
And deluded pens
[Chorus]
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
[Verse 2]
I've met girls with power
And I truly take offense
At our endorsing thinkers
Who claim skin matters
[Verse 3]
I have seen myself too many times
For me not to take offense
It seems I am the only one
With integrity
[Chorus]
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
[Bridge]
It's a foul stench of distrust
As I have sold myself cheaply
What you welcome is a beating
By what you always have looked down upon
[Chorus 2]
I would love to but I can't
I would love to but I can't
I would love to but I can't
I would love to but I can't
[Verse 4]
Patterns hard as rock appear
And I truly take offense
At our romanticizing
Of this pounding flesh
[Verse 5]
In the wetlands where I found myself
I did truly take offense
At people's glorifying
What we call human
[Chorus]
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
Are you down tonight?
[Outro]
It's a foul stench of distrust
As I have sold myself cheaply
What you welcome is a beating
By what you always have looked down upon