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 We all know sadness,  and I feel your pain
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 Well everybody knows a little loneliness sometimes
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'Cause we're all the same

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 We all have sorrow, we all have shame
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 Everybody feels a bit of emptiness sometimes
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Now what you gonna do about that

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There's a way to keep going , step by step
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Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick
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While your life will keep coming, year after year
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 Drain the pain, tear by tear
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 Drain away the pain, tear by tear

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 Take a look around you
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 Every face that you see
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 Well everybody gets a little paralyzed sometimes, the epidemic of our
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insanity

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There's a way to keep going , step by step
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Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick
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While your life will keep coming, year after year
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 Drain the pain, tear by tear
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 Drain away the pain, tear by tear

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And the mother she waits, 'Cause her teenager's late
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Till the knock on the door, he says ma'am I am so sorry
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And soldiers come home, one leg less than they'd gone with
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We all walk around like there's just nothing wrong with it

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The doctor he cries 'cause his last patient died
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Did I mention before he was a father of five
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And the waitress is home, well she can't pay her loan
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She's lost everything - everything, she has no where to go
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And the fat kid at school couldn't take anymore
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All the taunts and the names and the ugliest words
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No one even stopped to notice, they went on with their day
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Till he pulled out a gun and blew himself away

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There's a way to keep going , step by step
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Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick

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You can drain all the pain
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Tear by tear,
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Tear by tear