People have always been like this redux1

Lyrics

[Intro – gentle guitar plucking, rustic tone] Some say humanity evolves... But if history had a comment section? Yeah. Haha! We’ve always been like this. --- {Verse 1} 🎶 Way back in old Mesopotamia, Nanni wrote with righteous mania: "Your copper sucks! Your biz is trash!" First Yelp review—in a mud slab dash. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “I was treated with contempt! I demand better copper!” 🎶 That bitter clay complaint still sticks— Proof we’ve always been petty pricks. 🎶 --- {Verse 2 } 🎶 Pompeii’s walls, preserved in doom, Just ancient bathroom stall costume: “ROMA BLOWS” and “Lucius sucks,” “Your mom” jokes etched in lava crust. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “I screwed the barmaid. Beware of Marcus.” 🎶 Frozen in time, that spicy wit— Human decorum? Never had it. 🎶 --- {Verse 3 – } 🎶 Monks transcribing holy writ Got bored and said, “Let’s doodle... shit.” Sword-fighting snails, rude rabbits, too— 'Cause fart jokes, friends, are timeless truth. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “This parchment is thin. My hand is tired.” 🎶 Cloistered life or not, they missed— No chance to roast? They still persist. 🎶 --- {Verse 4 – Socrates on Youth} 🎶 Socrates said, “Kids these days! No manners, brains, or moral ways!” “They sass, they vape, they disrespect!” Wait—no. That’s just your uncle on the internet. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “They disrespect elders. No self-control!” 🎶 Ancient Greece or Twitter feud— Boomers been boomering, that ain't new. 🎶 --- {Verse 5 – Renaissance Science Beef} 🎶 Newton said, “I see real far— Because of giants”—but also drama star. He side-eyed Hooke, threw subtle shade, Science got messy, lemonade was made. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “If I have seen further... it’s by standing on giants.” 🎶 Sure, genius—but also, dissed. He was Apple’s first petty physicist. 🎶 --- {Verse 6 – 1800s Panic} 🎶 In 1890, elders wailed: “This dance’ll send us all to hell!” The waltz?! Clutch your pearls!—the youth were twerkin’... Just, y’know, slower. And in corsets, workin’. 🎶 [Spoken: ] “These dances are a disgrace! Society will fall!” 🎶 From jazz to TikTok bootie twist— Every era thinks theirs is the pits. 🎶 --- {Bridge – Spoken, soft guitar noodling} We invented writing... to complain. We built temples... and drew dicks on ‘em. We created philosophy... then subtweeted Plato. We discovered fire... and used it to roast. --- {Final Chorus – stomping and clapping, barn-raising energy} 🎶 People have always been like this, Messy and loud with a judgmental hiss. We don’t evolve, we just rebrand— From cave wall burns to YouTube rants. 🎶 🎶 Sassy scrolls and stony fists— Human nature’s chaotic bliss. No golden age, no peaceful fix... We’ve always been like this. 🎶 [End pluck. Faint giggle. Someone whispers:] “Beware of Marcus.”