When I build my beautiful house I'll build it high, high above this road This road I walk, in shadow and doubt There I'll build my beautiful house When I build my beautiful house I'll build it high on that rocky hill Where pain and memory have been stilled There I'll build my beautiful house Down here below, baby, nothing lasts Love and great stone mansions turn to dust and ash Past all this, I walk along Somethin' stronger than my own children movin' me on I walk with a hammer and a fiery lantern With this, I build, and with this, I burn These things I carry on my dark road And so it goes, and so it goes When I build my beautiful house I'll build it high on that rocky hill Where pain and memory have been stilled There I'll build my beautiful house