Kitchen Table Math • Track 05
What If We Didn’t Listen
A heavy question aimed at division itself: who taught ordinary people to see one another as enemies, and what changes if we stop listening?
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Start with the song, then come back through the story and official lyrics.
Where it came from
This song came from watching people who share the same streets, fears, needs, and sky become convinced they belong on opposite sides of everything.
The anger in the song is not aimed at one group. It is aimed at the machinery that turns people into labels, keeps everyone scrolling, judging, and reacting, and makes empathy look weak.
The opening question became the entire foundation: who taught us we were enemies, and why did we accept the lesson?
What it means
What If We Didn't Listen argues that peace is not passivity. It takes strength to interrupt the cycle, look beyond a side, and recognize the human being inside every opinion and wound.
The song admits personal responsibility too. Walls, pride, blame, and fear are not only things other people carry. Change begins when we notice them in ourselves.
Its final answer is love — not as a slogan, but as a decision to help each other heal instead of continuing a fight most people never chose.
Core feeling
Kindness is not surrender — it may be the bravest refusal of all.
Official Lyrics
Full lyrics below
Who taught us we're enemies
I don't remember learning that
Walking streets, same faces, different walls
Neighbors hiding, silent calls
Headlines scream, hearts go numb
We fight for reasons we didn't come from
Everyone's right, nobody sees
The weight we carry, the need for peace
We scroll, we judge, we click, we scroll
Forgetting the human inside every soul
They say pick a side, hold your ground
Fight your battles, don't look around
But I still believe, it's not too late
We're more than anger, more than hate
Who taught us we're enemies
Who taught us we're enemies
What if we helped each other heal
What if kindness was real
Yeah
Fists in the air, masks on our face
Living in fear we didn't embrace
We label, we argue, we point, we blame
Same pain, new day, nothing's changed
I've built walls, I've burned my pride
Called it strength just to hide inside
Pride's the virus, empathy's the cure
If we listen close, love can endure
Peace ain't weak, it's a fight inside
Love's the weapon they can't divide
Who taught us we're enemies
Who taught us we're enemies
What if we helped each other heal
What if kindness was real
I learned to share before I learned to fight
Same sky over broken nights
La da da, hearts collide
Same tears falling from different sides
What if being kind was brave
What if love's the way we save
Who taught us we're enemies
Who taught us we're enemies
What if we helped each other heal
What if kindness finally feels real
No more right, no more wrong
Just human hearts trying to carry on
They tried to teach us we don't belong
But love's been right here all along
No
I don't believe that anymore