Easy to Be Hard
Unveiling the Cold Realities: Heartlessness and Cruelty in Human Nature
Lyrics
How can people be so heartless?
Questioning the lack of compassion in people and their heartlessness.
How can people be so cruel?
Expressing disbelief at the cruelty exhibited by some individuals.
Easy to be hard
Highlighting how it's effortless for people to be unkind or harsh.
Easy to be cold
Emphasizing the ease with which people can be emotionally distant or unresponsive.
How can people have no feelings?
Raising the question of how some individuals can be devoid of emotions.
How can they ignore their friends?
Questioning the ability of people to disregard their friendships.
Easy to be proud
Pointing out how it's easy for people to be arrogant or self-important.
Easy to say no
Highlighting the ease with which people can decline or reject.
Especially people who care about strangers
Referencing individuals who claim to care about strangers and social issues.
Who care about evil and social injustice
Pointing out their concern for societal problems such as evil and injustice.
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
Questioning whether they only care about those in immediate distress.
How about a needing friend? I need a friend
Expressing a personal need for friendship and connection.
How can people be so heartless?
Reiterating the disbelief at people's heartlessness and lack of empathy.
You know I'm hung up on you
Acknowledging a personal attachment or emotional investment in someone.
Easy to be proud
Reiterating the ease with which people can be arrogant or self-important.
Easy to say no
Highlighting the simplicity of rejecting or saying no to others.
Especially people who care about strangers
Referring again to those who claim to care about strangers and social issues.
Who care about evil and social injustice
Emphasizing their concern for societal problems like evil and injustice.
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
Posing the question of whether they only care about immediate crises.
How about a needing friend? I need a friend
Reiterating the personal need for friendship and connection.
How can people be so heartless?
Repeating the disbelief at people's heartlessness and lack of empathy.
How can people be so cruel?
Reiterating the astonishment at the cruelty displayed by some individuals.
Easy to be proud
Highlighting the ease with which people can be arrogant or self-important.
Easy to say no
Reiterating the simplicity of rejecting or saying no to others.
Easy to be cold
-Easy to say no
Emphasizing the ease with which people can be emotionally distant or unresponsive.
Come on easy to get laid
Suggesting that it's easy for some to engage in casual or uncommitted relationships.
Easy to say no
Reiterating the simplicity of rejecting or saying no to others.
But too easy to be cold
Indicating that being emotionally distant is too simple or effortless.
Easy to say no
Reiterating the ease with which people can be emotionally distant or unresponsive.
Much too easy to say no
Stressing that saying no is much too easy for some individuals.
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