You the great pretenders, blood to paint your pictures While you’re stepping over fallen people lying in the streets You the great offenders, only your views matter While your heart grows colder, I wish that you could open up and feel
For a while see if you can take it Feel, you’re alive and this is all part of it Feel, could it be that we’re all afraid 'Cause it feels like a rainy day parade
We the great believers, blood is legal tender I will not surrender what it was our fathers died to bear We the people stated, not negotiated Just to be forgotten, I wish that you could open up and see
For a while see if you can take it See, you’re alive and this is all part of it See, can’t you see that we’re all afraid ‘Cause it seems like a rainy day parade
What I see is all too real What I need is what you steal And all I reap is what you take Upon my back on which you break I just wish that we could rise above and feel
For a while see if you can take it Feel, you’re alive and this is all part of it Feel could it be that we’re all afraid ‘Cause it feels like a rainy day parade