A Better Bridge - Thrice

It’s so hard to understand just where you’re coming from

To try to see things from a different point of view

I’m trying not to pigeonhole, or simply write you off

But it’s so much simpler if the parody is true

Yeah it’s so easy to believe it’s really you

But I refuse to buy into this tired narrative

That anyone who doesn’t run with me’s a fool

And I believe together we can build a better bridge

That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you

I’m sick of toeing party lines across the great divide

I’m sick of human hearts reduced to red or blue

But there are still often times my thoughts of you are cardboard cutout lies

It’s so much simpler if the parody is true

Yeah it’s so easy to believe it’s really you

Yeah it’s so easy to believe it’s really you

And I refuse to buy into this tired narrative

That anyone who doesn’t run with me is a fool

And I believe together we can build a better bridge

That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you

Why is it so hard to just remember

That you have a past, a face, a heart, a name?

Oh, it’s so hard to just remember, yeah

That we are less different than we are the same

But I have to try

Yeah I have to try

So I refuse to buy into this tired narrative

That anyone who doesn’t run with me is a fool

And I believe together we can build a better bridge

That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you

I refuse to buy into this tired narrative

That anyone who doesn’t run with me is a fool

And I believe together we can build a better bridge

That spans the breadth and starts connecting me to you