They should have shut down all the streets
Presidents and heros should have 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 cryin'
It went on for 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 one way
And they should have asked again, again and again
They should have shut down all the streets
All the bouquets piled on the doorstep
And pages filled with crayon hearts
That a second grade class had made in a school that day
Because the teacher had to give in small way
And there weren't that many ways left for her to say
They should have shut down all the streets