Have mercy on us Father who lived through this age of storms We barely had the time to bind the wounds caused by our shattered norms The credulous are on crusade against reality Freedom's just another word for acting with impunity It's hard to get your bearings in a world that doesn't care Positions I took long ago feel comfy as an old arm chair But the kids that pulled the statues down they challenged me to see The gap between the man I am and the man I want to be ♪ That old familiar argument blew up again last night The one where one of us is wrong, but both of us feel in the right My indignation drove me to say things that I regret I hurt the one I love the most with my self-righteous temperament Now I must face the consequences of the thoughtlessness I've shown It wasn't my intention to spend this evening all alone But wounded pride is all I have to keep me company And the gap between the man I am and the man I wanna be ♪ Now I'm used to people listening to what I have to say And I found it hard to think that it might help if I just stepped away Adjusted my perception to reflect reality And the gap between the man I am and the man I wanna be Them gap between the man I am and the man I wanna be