Leviticus 24:19-20      New English Translation

19 If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him— 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

 

What man produces?

 

I guess it is for certain that low quality lives the longest

Well! I mean in the time where most men think it counts

A form of existence that seems dressed up for a wedding

To make vows to each other as with fancy words they drown

 

It does not need to fit now as it is just to show-off

I did, you did and all will bless us for the coming day

But when the week is over there is a quick awakening

And the freedom, that you sought, turns into a price to pay

 

Now you have to be molded, but you’re brittle to the core

The flexibility that you hungered for left you so long ago

Now with a chisel and a hammer, one removes the sharp edges

And then will sand you down until you shine like vertigo

 

The walls look in good shape, but the floor is rotten

I would have never noticed because vinyl-covered all

But now there’s some awareness that will not ever leave me

Until that floor is fixed otherwise someone will crash and fall

 

Is it so with humans? They may appear kind of pretty

Until one removes the surface and discover what’s underneath

Maybe parts are rotten and ready for collapsing

Dragging all that lean on them downwards into a sleaze

 

Humans are so much like the products that they make

Not really too reliable, but ready for a quick fix

Built for the temporal breaking down before their time

Always defending quality and always in armed conflict

 

Jan Wienen