We all know sadness

And I feel your pain

Well everybody knows a little loneliness sometimes

'Cause we're all the same



We all have sorrow

We all have shame

Everybody feels a bit of emptiness sometimes

Now what you gonna do about that



There's a way to keep going

Step by step

Try to fix what's been broken

Brick by brick

While your life will keep coming

Year after year

Drain the pain

Tear by tear

Drain away the pain

Tear by tear



Take a look around you

Every face that you see

Well everybody gets a little paralyzed sometimes

The epidemic of our insanity



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And the mother she waits

'Cause her teenager's late

Till the knock on the door

He says ma'am I am so sorry

And soldiers come home

One leg less than they'd gone with

We all walk around like there's just nothing wrong with it



The doctor he cries 'cause his last patient died

Did I mention before he was a father of five

And the waitress is home

Well she can't pay her loan

She's lost everything - everything

Has no where to go



And the fat kid at school couldn't take anymore

All the taunts and the names and the ugliest words

No one even stopped to notice

Went on with their day

Till he pulled out a gun and blew himself away



There's a way to keep going

Step by step

Try to fix what's been broken

Brick by brick



You can drain all the pain

Tear by tear

Tear by tear