Human Nature

from Wanted Man by Drew Winters

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Looking back at this track now, I can't remember what was going through our minds as we recorded it. But I love it... the manic energy, the imagery, and the sense that the whole thing's going to fly off the rails any second. There are some things in the mix that bug me, and we re-mixed it a couple of years ago. That version - Human Nature (Revisited) - is a bonus track on my latest CD, Last Call In Montreal.

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HUMAN NATURE
(Winters,Sherman)

Sunscreen for sunshine
Umbrellas in the rain
We save ourselves from pleasure
In avoiding any pain
Moral little people
We keep ourselves repressed
Hide from the shame
We keep ourselves all dressed

Stagger with our baggage
As we march along in step
All that western luggage
It’s such a pretty set
While we envy the frenzy
Of rituals and rites
Of the gods of fertility
Dancing in the night

Careful what you say, might scare them away
Wouldn’t look too good, wonder if you should (It’s too late)
Faces in the crowd, don’t say that out loud
Keep it to yourself, worry about your health

NATURE
IT’S ONLY HUMAN NATURE
YOU CAN’T FIGHT HUMAN NATURE

Breathe, live, love, mate
(Step right up and have a go)
Sleep, eat, die, fate
(What have you got to lose?)

Our passion for irrational
Will never be fulfilled
Superstitions weaken
And still the pressures build
They’re ancient, they’re heady
Through the turning of the tides
While we batten down the hatches
They’re perverting out the sides

© 2006 Drew Winters

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from Wanted Man, released June 1, 2006

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