Lyric discussion by corerulez 

Cover art for What We Have Become lyrics by Between the Buried and Me

"This song is very old and way more straightforward than most of my lyrics. I wrote it around the same time as "more of myself to kill", as you can probably tell. This song basically is just me saying how displeased I am with the human species. We ruin everything around us, and we are the most unintelligent animals alive. Yes I do fall into the category of the human animal, and I too think of myself as a disease. We¹re all hypocrites and we all destroy. -tommy"

Well, yes that makes sense since he said it, but I highly doubt tommy hates the human race as much as he says he does, it sounds more for publicity. And F.Y.I. tommy is kind of a human being too. But anyway I thought it was clever how "raping our mother" is actually the raping of mother earth and how we bulldozed it and made skyscrapers and felt satisfied with how it looked. Pretty good song.