Castles

I see you at the liquor store

Leavin' with the cheapest can of beer on the shelf

You ain't livin' on the street, but you barely making rent

And I relate because I'm strugglin' myself

I see you smile at the clerk, while you fumble through your purse

I just wish I had a little more to help

I imagine where you livin', how you feelin', what you love

And who you'll be if you can make it out your hell

I see you at the bus stop, lookin' at the sidewalk

Smokin' half a cigarette, waitin' for a ride

Kinda limp when you walk, and look away when you talk

You're ashamed, I can see it in your eyes

Probably got a nascar shirt, and a car that you love

But you're here 'cause you're too afraid to drive

It's been almost ten years since the day that you crashed

Can't forget about the little boy's life

Everybody's got a story, if you look a little closer

You can see it in the wrinkles in they face

They can hide it in the silence, they can bury it and fight it

But it comes out when their hair is turnin' gray

You can feel it if you touch them, you can tell that they are troubled

You can hear the story runnin' through they veins

We all travel different roads, and we put on different clothes

Underneath it all we're really all the same

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

I see you sittin' on the front porch

Playing with a radio, lookin' to the sky

Probably livin' in that house all alone these days

Tryin' to find a better way to pass time

Got a wheelchair ramp leadin' up to the door

I can see that you walk just fine

Probably hate it 'cause it isn't gettin' used anymore

And you only ever built it for your wife

Everywhere that I walk, see you on the sidewalk

Beggin' for a little loose change for some dope

Probably got a mama and a papa spendin' everything they make

Tryna clean you up enough to take you home

Used to have a good job, used to get good grades

Used to have big dreams, then you lost hope

When your girlfriend died givin' birth to your son

You're the father that he'll probably never know

Everybody has a tale that their too afraid to tell

You can see it in the cracks in their hands

They can cover it with smiles if you walk a couple miles in their shoes

Then you'll know where they stand

Everyone who really lived had to climb out of a ditch

They were in before they found the right path

If you wanna know the truth about what we been goin' through

Then try to put your phone away so you can ask

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

We are, the neighbors that you'll never meet

We are, the strangers walkin' down your street

We are, a million faces in the crowd

We are, the ones the system's tearin' down

We are, the people workin' to survive

We are, more than just our 9 to 5's

We are, the shoppin' malls and street cars

We are one, it's time to tell them just who we are

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones

We've all got problems and we all feel alone

We've all been haunted by the secrets we hold

We could fill our coffins with the rocks they have thrown

Or we could build our castles with the sticks and the stones