Just up the road

There are news trucks all lined up

Cameras out putting on a circus show

For a sad sad fool who shot up a school

And now innocent eyes are forever closed

Just up the road

There are fathers and mothers

Picking out Sunday best clothes

For their children to be buried in

To say goodbye and not one more hello

Just up the road

All the hurting will heal

A peace we will all feel

But down here we're all left to believe in hope

Until the madness all stops

All that we got

Is each other to help fix what we've broke

Just up the road

Are packed churches and bars

Trying to drown and lift up lost souls

But they're just a day to day temporary band aid

Until the day we all make it home

Just up the road

All the hurting will heal

A peace we will all feel

But down here we're all left to believe in hope

Until the madness all stops

All that we got

Is each other to help fix what we've broke

Just up the road

Another sun will rise again

So love the ones you're with and hold them close

Live a life every day to leave this world a better place

For them until we go

Just up the road