Tear By Tear

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

We all have sorrow
We all have shame
Everybody feels a bitter emptiness sometimes
Now what you gonna do 'bout that?

There's a way to keep goin', step by step
Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick
While your life will keep comin', year after year
You drain the pain, tear by tear
You drain away the pain, tear by tear

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

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

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

The doctor he cries 'cause his last patient died
Did I mention before he was a father of five?
And the waitress is home, well, she can't pay her loan
She's lost everything, everything, has nowhere to go

And the fat kid at school couldn't take anymore
Of the taunts and the names and the ugliest words
No one even stopped to notice they went on with their day
'Til he pulled out a gun, and blew himself away

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

You can drain off the pain
Tear by tear
Tear by tear