Why must we live this way, we can’t give, we take away
A father begs as a woman cries, one man takes another’s life

We’d rather have it wash away
Than spend our precious time
We’d all rather have it wash away
Than to try

Around the corner a man with no shoes walks by
He looks at the door as he stands outside; all he wants is another drink
All we want is to not think about our world today

We’d rather have it wash away
Than spend our precious time
We’d all rather have it wash away
Than to try

To look at the world through irritated eyes
Thousands are gone from one ocean's tide
A war we support for our soldier's sake
What if we fail, what a hard pill to take

We’d rather have it wash away
Than spend our precious time
We’d all rather have it wash away
Than to try