From your perspective I could see how everyone looks like a coward
From your perspective I could see compassion must seem like a waste of time
Somehow you slipped from the womb ready to take on anything and anyone
Or was it something that happened to you at a very young age, but
Not everybody evolves at the same rate baby, some of us are still monkeys
Not everybody evolves the same some of us are still stuck
Staring at our fingers trying to figure out which one might someday become a thumb
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves

Sometimes I bet it seems to you like everyone’s putting sand in their shoes
I bet it seems to you like everyone’s tying lead weights to their brain
It must be like you’re tryin to push a car with people still in it
Why are the simplest things constantly left up to you, but
Not everybody evolves at the same rate baby, some of us are still crawlin
Not everybody evolves the same some of us are still stuck
Howling at the moon hoping if we keep it up we’ll someday form a word
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves

And when we walk the street together
Careful not to step on my hands
They’re scraping the ground

I’m scared of falling, scared of falling
Scared I might not get back up
I’m scare of what that Roosevelt said
I’m mostly scared of being scared
Sometimes every step I take
Is followed by two steps backwards
Maybe you’re the missing link
And I’m about to be extinct, but
Not everybody evolves at the same rate baby
Some of us are still swimming
Not everybody evolves the same, some of us are still stuck
Scraping for survival, looking back back back back back
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves
Not everybody evolves

(lyrics: Dan Bern)