Stevie Hill: mp3s/lyrics

If you saw your brother
Walking down the street
Would you treat him like anyone else?
Have you stopped to think
That it might be true
That all men are your brothers?
I'm not quite that blind
As to think that someday
We might be kind to one another.
I'm just asking---why must we be quite so thoughtless?

People seem bewildered,
Keeping fronts that hide the gentle thoughts that they are thinking.
Crowds of lonely people searching for acceptance,
Never finding what they're needing
Looking past each other---carelessness the cause of all contempt that they are breeding...
And I keep asking---
"Why must we be quite so thoughtless?"

Maybe in the future
People will discover how to talk with one another.
They will be defenseless--
that's because they will not have a need for false defenses.
They will learn to live,
Learn to love each other
without fear of consequences.
They'll keep asking--
"Why were we quite so thoughtless?"