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