They Should Have Shut Down The Streets Lyrics - Shut Down The Streets - A.c. Newman

They should have shut down all the streets 

Presidents and kings should've been there 

With not a single empty seat 

All the schools closed 

And the roads we drove down all lined 

Lined with people cap in hand and crying 

That went on for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles 

They should have shut down all the streets 

All the papers plastered with tributes 

We should have asked for privacy 

Though we understand if it's someone to share their pain 

We would ask to grieve this in our quiet way 

And they should have asked again and again and again 

They should have shut down all the streets 

All the brocades piled on the doorstep 

And pages filled with crayon hearts that a second grade class had made in their school that day 

Because the teacher had to give them some small way 

And there weren't that many ways left for her to say 

They should have shut down all the streets