Are we human? or are we dancers?

For the past few weeks, theres this song in my head.

Human by The Killers.

I was introduced to this song out of curiousity.

My little brother was listening to his MP4 player in the car, when we were on our way home from dinner. The car was amazingly quiet until he made this sound in the most dramatic way;

"Are we humman?? or areee we daannncerrs??"

I went laughing like crazy and said
"Neither.. You're fat."

That was the first time I heard the question..

I made a little in dept search about this statement and well it was obviously a metaphor.

In regards to 'human and dancer', the singer is actually implying that they're two different things. There is also one part in the second verse that the singer would sing a send-off of morals ("grace and virtue", "good", "soul and romance", "devotion") - implying that humans used to/should have. As an adjective, human means free thinker. Meaning we can do what we want when we want.

As for the dancer part, he uses "dancer" as a metaphor - dancers follow leads, they conform. Dancer is refering to a puppet dancing on string. Having someone move you were they want you to go, thinking for you, and living our life like a routine that is all planned out.

So the question now..

Are we human? or are we dancers?