Hurt People Hurt People - Aquarian Rising Music

Lyrics by Lytton Hall (Aquarian Rising).
Special thanks to Suno.com, without whom I couldn't have turned my lyrics into music.

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
A guy inside a prison cell
ain't gonna better himself in there
The world treats him like an enemy
so why the hell would he even care
about doing more wrong to another man
when there's nowhere to go but down
If there's no chance he can ever enter again
into the sacred social realm

[Chorus]
Hurt people hurt people
It ain't somethin' they wanna do
But they don't have the inner vision
to conjure up the wisdom
to figure out a path that's new
So instead of getting angry
and doing something crazy
like doing them more harm
Why don't you treat them like a brother
and figure out another
way to help them help themselves
Hurt people hurt people

[Verse 2]
Every now and then someone figures
out how to find the path themselves
It's rare, it barely happens
but in the end they're hated still
People don't know how to forgive
and they don't empathize
with someone they wanna hate
They'd rather make their heart ache
than admit they'd have done
the same themselves

[Chorus]
Hurt people hurt people
It ain't somethin' they wanna do
But they don't have the inner vision
to conjure up the wisdom
to figure out a path that's new
So instead of getting angry
and doing something crazy
like doing them more harm
Why don't you treat them like a brother
and figure out another
way to help them help themselves
Hurt people hurt people

[Bridge]
When we call out to another
and we can't get a little help
we become a little harder
so we can survive our private hells

[Verse 3]
It's easier to go it alone
but we're all a little weak
There's no reason at all to make
life harder than it needs to be
So if someone hurts you from now on
you can choose to turn around
and instead of hitting back in anger
try to see the pain they've found

[Chorus]
Hurt people hurt people
It ain't somethin' they wanna do
But they don't have the inner vision
to conjure up the wisdom
to figure out a path that's new
So instead of getting angry
and doing something crazy
like doing them more harm
Why don't you treat them like a brother
and figure out another
way to help them help themselves
Hurt people hurt people