To Be Human (Original Alan Menken Demo)

All that I'd longed for
All that I dreamed
All things impossible
That's just how it seemed

More than I hoped for
Somehow is mine
Somehow, although I've won
I feel a lack and a loss
Staring back across the finish line

I could say goodbye to a world of pain
Full of ills and thrills I can't explain
People laugh out loud on their darkest day
So I know to be human is okay

Would I choose a world where I cannot fail?
Or a world where I'll grow old and frail?
If you cannot lose, then how can you win?
Though it hurts to be human, count me in

Each day, we carry on
Meeting every challenge face to face
If life's a marathon
Then my place is in the human race

To my real, true friends, I can feel your love
To the one I can't stop thinking of
When I feel your heart beating close to mine
It's so clear and strong, I'm where I belong
And I know to be human is divine