I Could Build You A Tower Lyrics

I Could Build You A Tower lyrics

You just sit there in silence whilst the world cries out in vain

On the television screens and the newspaper headlines we read today

There's a war going on in the Middle East and the fallout

Affects us all, but nobody out there's prepared to talk



There's a war going on on our own front door step

With the Jews and Islam-aphoebes

Because every time a bomb goes off we get religious probes

There will always be extremists acting in their names of God

But the Gods they worship will never hear them call



I could build you a tower, I could set you apart

From all the wars and the violence towards the pure of heart

I could build you a tower but they'll only burn it down



There's an 8 year old boy in Lebanon with a rifle in his hands

His parents betray his innocence as he's old enough to be a man

As a teenage boy in Columbine fires automatic rounds

Into the hordes of students as bodies hit the ground



The waters rise to enormous heights off the coast of North Korea

With all the weapons testing our worlds investing in nuclear fear

I'm counting down the days until this earth destroys itself

Through our ignorance, gluttony and wealth



I could build you a tower, I could set you apart

From all the wars and the violence towards the pure of heart

I could build you a tower but they'll only burn it down