[Verse 1] 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... [Chorus 1] 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 [Verse 2] We the great believers Blood is legal tender And 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 [Chorus 2] 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 [Bridge] 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 And I just wish that we could rise above and... [Chorus] 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