Evan Gary Hirsch - We Don't Know What We're Doing Lyrics

Subconscious thinking, and not our conscious thoughts
Makes us do the things we do as if we were robots
Cultural programming infiltrates our heads
And makes decisions for us as if by a leash led
And all the free will that we think we possess
Isn't giving us a handle on our own choices
On our own choices

We don't know that we don't know
What we're doing when we're doing it
If we don't know what we're doing
When we're doing it, we won't know why
When we don't know, then we can't grow
And we won't know why, we won't know why
We won't know why, we won't know why

For eons untold we have been slaves to fear
Drowning out our inner voices so we just cannot hear
The communications being sent from the Heart
Maybe a big deep breath is a good place for us to start
And once we finally tune into our soul
Knowing what we are doing we can define our life's role
We can define our life's role

But we don't know that we don't know
What we're doing when we're doing it
If we don't know what we're doing
When we're doing it we won't know why
When we don't know then we can't grow
And we won't know why we won't know why
We won't know why we won't know why WHY?!

#Instrumental

That EM Forrster quote rings in my head
That he won't know what he thinks
Until he's heard what he's said
When we look in the rearview
To see what we've done
We can learn our motivations
And what we've become
And if we take a closer look
Examining why
We do what we do
We can gain some insight
When we start with the heart
And the values it contains
We can choose our doings
By exercising our brains
Choose our doings
And not be so insane
Not aligning with values
Is just downright lame
It's lame lame lame

That we don't know we don't know
What we're doing when we're doing it
If we don't know what we're doing
When we're doing it we won't know why
Cause we don't know that we don't know
What we're doing when we're doing it
Cause we don't know we can't grow
And we don't know why we don't know why
We don't know why we don't know why
Uh uh we don't know why