I see a blind man on the street  He doesn't know what I look like  So he can't judge the man I am  Except by what he sees inside    I see a child on the street  He doesn't know the mistakes I made  I know he takes me where I am   He sees a friend not a crusade    Lord help me live like this  Lord help me love like this    We are a common people, each of us a fallen man  Let's find that common ground   and stop drawing lines in the sand  We are a common people, living in a common life  There are ties that bind us all   when we look beyond the lines  Common people, you and I    I see a brother o the other side  Of my crusade, my holy fight  I think I know where I went wrong  When I gave up love to be proved right    I saw a man die on a cross  He forgot the mistakes I made  He died for me the way I was  and He wants me to love the same    Can't we tear the fences down  Can't we rip the labels off  Can we share the common ground  Instead of judging what is not  Can't we love instead of hate  Can't we trust instead of fear  Can we stop fighting for a moment  And feel our common tears  Is it us against them, wrong against right,  black against white, my kind your kind  There comes a time to put the argument down   and have a party on the common ground