Why so proud?

Why so proud?
Why so bold?
All I know
All I've been told

I did learn from your mistakes
Want to build on your dried lakes
Tell me what it is that makes
Ears deaf to my attempts

Ain't the world
yours and mine?
Ain't it here
for us to define?
What it was
says what it is
What will be
.
.
.
Well, that's up to you and me