Up in arms at the absence of perfection and at the apogee, we find we're all the same

Although the source defies a name the strain is clear

Inside our rights and the contradictions, still deciding who's entitled or to blame

To keep our heads above the shame, we rise and fall

When your faith is real, there's only so much swept away

When I look down, whose hands come clean when we wash all our sins away?

We've got to break just to be unselfish

Forgetting how we once defined ourselves as one

Caught up in counting all we've won, we tear it down with the strength of our fathers' vision

Can we somehow break ourselves of this decay as we endeavor on this way?

Endeavor on this way we rise and fall

When your faith is real, there's only so much swept away

When I look down, whose hands come clean when we wash all our sins away?

And we don't want to feel your pain

Stand above, it seems the same as painted fortunes bound to fade

The same example stripped away in vain

And I will try to bring you shelter from the bitter winds of your despair

Seems all that we ever do brings sadness

Make believe nobody cares