evolution the world is hurting the world is hurting the world is hurting more than it ever has before and you wanna know why because of the guy on the corner with a sign that says god hates fags because of the soccer mom waving her american flag because of the frat boy driving his suv because of the brainwashed millions watching tv because of the wait what if the world is hurting because of me and what if the world is hurting because of us see things are really messed up but we spend so much time pointing the fault over there and over there and over there not realizing the vaults of change we could open just by looking inside here year after year we condemn the media fed fear and hate that separates nations from nations us from them and us from them we condemn those walls every day and yet every day we erect walls on our own streets when we treat our neighbors like strangers and dont even care to know their names and we claim we are working for peace were all singing songs of no war but what about the wars we fight with the people we love behind our own front doors and those bumper stickers that say no blood for oil slapped to the backs of our gas guzzling cars it would make a little more sense if we had them stuck across our hearts weve got to look at our part before we point the blame elsewhere aim a little back here and we could light the world so bright see i could spend my whole life pointing at the poison of the conservative republican christian right or i could look at myself and see the most homophobic person ive ever known was me at 19 years old i could write books about the way i have sold my soul fill whole libraries with just my crimes so im not gonna waste anymore time playing judge and jury over everyone else when ive never found myself completely not guilty in fact compared to many my hands are probably filthy so we can make devils of each other or we can take that energy and make gods of ourselves and id rather live my life on a mission of building a heaven than working demolition in hell build big the beauty big build the love and i swear the hate the fear will one day disappear and it all starts right here because the holiest water ever poured on me was a water that reflected everything inside me that i didnt want to see see we can march a thousand picket lines in the streets we can tear up the concrete a thousand times with our teeth then plant the soil with a thousand fertile seeds for the revolution thats marching deep inside our own private souls thats the rain that will make the flowers grow so before you point the blame make a list of everything on this earth that you want to change and at the top print your own beautiful name and start from there build revolutions inside here inside your own pounding heart and that alone could start the evolution of the entire human race in a world of judgment so much depends on the kindness of one friendly face so build your compassion build your grace your next big breath could become the next big bang the single saving spark that lights the fire there will be no higher power any higher than you when you first save the sister father brother mother earth that lives inside you so build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart your brush your march your art your poetry your clay and for every day you paint the war take a week and paint the beauty the color the shape of the landscape your marching towards everybody knows what youre against show them what youre for then become the door that opens that keeps the people hopin and dont just point the way become the path that leads them there with everything you do cause if youre gonna change the world you got to start with you 