We are what we are
Nothing really changes

If we could live in Shakespeare's days
I wonder who we'd be
If people then could live today
I wonder who we'd see
They'd probably stop a corner cop
And ask what this world's coming to
If people then could live today
I wonder what they'd do

Would Romeo and Juliet
Watch Nelson Eddy kiss Jeanette
Would Bacchus read police gazette
And window peep at silhouettes
Would Caesar pay to see the Mets
Would Icarus join the new jet set
Would Satan smoke cigarettes
Would Samson razor with Gillettes

Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die

Would Henry VIII use etiquette
In a busy New York luncheonette
Would Cleopatra die when bit
Or save herself with a tourniquet
Beethoven join a jazz quartet
Ben Hur drive a blue corvette
Would Aristotle be an acid head
Would Cain kill Abel with a bayonet

Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes

We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Unless we know the Lord

Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die

We are who we are
We are till the day we die
We are who we are
We are till the day we die

Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
We are what we are
Till the day that we die

(We are who we are)
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
(We are till the day we die)
We are what we are
Till the day that we die
(We are who we are)
Nothing really changes
Everything remains the same
(We are till the day we die)
We are what we are
Till the day that we die



Behind the Song:
Originally written and performed by Larry Norman