[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 feel

[Chorus 1]
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 see
[Chorus 2]
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 feel

[Chorus]
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