This is the place they brought the towers down and made the whole wide world weep But there's cameras on the dying in the desert towns and we're not losing any sleep Nobody knows the trouble we've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the weight of broken dreams Nobody suffers but us My mother knows they're holding sons and fathers there, down in Guantanamo Bay She says it's probably illegal but she just don't care, as long as we can sleep safe Nobody knows the trouble we've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the weight of broken dreams Nobody suffers but us One September day, three thousand innocents died, I know, but we can't bring them back And while we bicker over monuments and dry our eyes, we've laid ten thousand dead in Iraq Nobody knows the trouble we've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the weight of broken dreams Nobody suffers but us Nobody knows the trouble we seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the weight of broken dreams Nobody suffers but us