Pain is all around us. 
    If it’s not physical pain, 
    then you’ll find it in the form of emotional stress
            spreading like acne on already broken faces.

Uptight is trendy, now.  
    If you aren’t filled with anger, rage, hostility, and violence, 
        you can’t be where it’s at.  

Just look into our entertainment mirror: 
    what do we look like? 
        Frenzied persons 
        driving madly to a grocery store 
        where we kung foo our way through a pile of floor-stacked oranges.
Wow!  I wanna be like that.  
They’re really having fun!

Entertainment heroes win their victories by being more violent than the bad guys. 
Count how many movies and TV shows follow that very scenario.  
This can leave some of us to conclude 
            that this is the way of taking care of everyday business.

Now whenever we gather, 
    you’re uptight, 
    I’m uptight.  
    But we’re where it’s at, 
        because everyone else is uptight too.  

And if some people are nice and pleasant, 
                    or polite, 
                    or happy, 
                    there has to be something wrong with them.

Broken faces are simply masks worn by broken hearts.
Nobody can be happy if I’m not.

This is a way to lose friends, 
            spouses, 
            partners, 
            parents, 
            and children. 


We can rage ourselves out of any relationship. 
    It’s so easy.

But, Lord, 
    how do we fix what we’ve broken, 
            and mend the hearts of those 
                    who have been hurt 
                        only trying to love us?