It's only human to despise yourself when you're weak
 I don't know why
 but that's the way that it's always been
 And I play by the rules I don't understand at all

 It's only human to be lazy and vain
 It's only human to expect a world that's just as vain
 I don't know why
 I want to believe that it's not that way
 But I'm Johnny come lately, it's not my place to say

 There's no escape, tell me why do they try so hard?

 And I pretend that I'm invincible, that I can go it all alone
 But I'm only human, trying to get by
 And praying to heaven I might find out why am I human
 Mere flesh and blood
 Afraid to go on without someone to hold me up

 It's just a human thing to fear the unknown
 But isn't it a tragic thing to live and die alone
 Oh Lord look at the world,
 have you ever seen so much misery?
 Like a ghost ship of fools, lost and floating out to sea

 And they climb and they fall
 yet they struggle on the same fault
 But they're only human, trying to get by
 And praying to heaven they might find out
 Why are we human
 Mere flesh and blood
 We're afraid to go on without someone to hold us up