From the recording So Human
Sometimes I wonder if God just gets big ol' belly laughs at how simple we humans can be. This song is built around the verse that speaks of removing a log from your own eye before you call out the speck in someone else's.
Lyrics
Simple Me
Music by Brian Dekam, Mike Manthei, John Donovan and Bret Major
Lyrics by Tim Glenn
I wonder how much humor you find
In the simplicity of all mankind
Choose the blind to lead
Riches here to blow our minds
But we keep the junk, leave the rest behind
Misguided piety, shrouded in our greed, yeah…yeah…
But for every finger pointed, a finger I find
Pointing at the forest stuck in my eye
Sometimes it’s a wonder I can see
I complicate the puzzle of a simple plan
Complicate the things I don’t understand
Simple me, simple me, simple me…
Ahhhh simple.
If I tried to hard to understand
How you came to earth a humble man
I’d probably blow a fuse
Cuz deity dressed in human skin
Is a truth too thick for a mind so thin
Looking for the ruse
Easily confused yeah…yeah…
Say what do you see?
But for every finger pointed, a finger I find
Pointing at the forest stuck in my eye
Sometimes it’s a wonder I can see
I complicate the puzzle of a simple plan
Complicate the things I don’t understand
Simple me, simple me, simple me…
Ahhhh simple.
BRIDGE
There’s no easy road
Far as I can see
Made more difficult by far too simple…me!
But for every finger pointed, a finger I find
Pointing at the forest stuck in my eye
Sometimes it’s a wonder I can see
I complicate the puzzle of a simple plan
Complicate the things I don’t understand
Simple me, simple me, simple me…
Ahhhh simple.