[Verse 1]
It's so hard to understand just where you're coming from
To try to see things from a different point of view
I'm trying not to pigeonhole, or simply write you off

[Pre-Chorus]
But it's so much simpler if the parody is true
Yeah it's so easy to believe it's really you

[Chorus]
But I refuse to buy into this tired narrative
That anyone who doesn't run with me's a fool
And I believe together we can build a better bridge
That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you

[Verse 2]
I'm sick of toeing party lines across the great divide
I'm sick of human hearts reduced to red or blue
But there are still often times my thoughts of you are cardboard cutout lies

[Pre-Chorus]
It's so much simpler if the parody is true
Yeah it's so easy to believe it's really you
Yeah it's so easy to believe it's really you

[Chorus]
And I refuse to buy into this tired narrative
That anyone who doesn't run with me is a fool
And I believe together we can build a better bridge
That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you
[Bridge]
Why is it so hard to just remember
That you have a past, a face, a heart, a name?
Oh, it's so hard to just remember, yeah
That we are less different than we are the same

But I have to try
Yeah I have to try

[Chorus]
So I refuse to buy into this tired narrative
That anyone who doesn't run with me is a fool
And I believe together we can build a better bridge
That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you

I refuse to buy into this tired narrative
That anyone who doesn't run with me is a fool
And I believe together we can build a better bridge
That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you