[Verse 1]
Welcome here, you're human
Don't know how we do it
Heartbreak and the bruises
God help us keep moving
And we bleed, we laugh
We love, we cry
This is what it's like
[Chorus]
To be human
To be human
[Verse 2]
If you're looking close, and if you trust
I know you'll find glitter in the dust
Don't be so hard on yourself it's hard enough
It's hard enough
To be human
Welcome to the new world
Stars are changing with every turn (stars are changing every turn)
And we're grasping through the chaos
To find a better way, even with a broken heart
And the void we feel
The peace we find
The never ending wars we fight
We're blind until we see the light
This is what it's like
[Chorus]
To be human
To be human
[Verse 3]
If you're looking close, and if you trust
I know you'll find glitter in the dust
Don't be so hard on yourself it's hard enough
It's hard enough
It's hard enough
To be human
To be human
We build it up we tear it down
Yeah we're all lost, until we're found
We find a voice here in the crowd
Saying you know what it's like
To be human, yeah
We're all human
[Chorus]
If you're looking close, and if you trust
I know you'll find glitter in the dust
Don't be so hard on yourself it's hard enough
It's hard enough, it's hard enough
To be human
To be human
If you're looking close, and if you trust
I know you'll find glitter in the dust
Don't be so hard on yourself it's hard enough
It's hard enough, it's hard enough
To be human
To be human
Human
Song Meaning
Dan Bremnes keeps "Human" close to universal, unglamorous experience — "we bleed, we laugh, we love, we cry" — refusing to separate the song's audience into those who have it together and those who don't. The repeated confession "it's hard enough to be human" isn't framed as a complaint but as common ground, something true of everyone the song is sung to.
"If you're looking close, and if you trust, I know you'll find glitter in the dust" offers its hope in the same unglamorous terms as the struggle it's answering — not a promise that the mess disappears, but that something worth finding is mixed into it. "Don't be so hard on yourself" repeats as the song's most direct, practical instruction, aimed squarely at self-judgment rather than outside circumstances.
"We build it up, we tear it down... we're all lost, until we're found" closes the song on a shared, ongoing process rather than a finished state — being human, in this framing, is something everyone is still in the middle of.