You the great offenders  Blood to paint your pictures  While you're stepping over  Fallen people lying in the streets    You the great pretenders  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  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  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 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  And 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    these lyrics are submitted by steven wheeler