Why do buildings fall down
When it looks like they're touching the sky?
Tell me why is it heavy and loaded
And ready to fall on its side?

Here today and gone
Like an ancient Babylon
The words and the cannons begin to yawn
Barely awake, oh why?
A Michelangelo thought
That lies buried inside of a hymn

Tell me why do buildings fall down
When it looks like they're touching the sky?
And why is it heavy and loaded
And ready to fall on its side?

Domes and hearts
Swinging alone on the tension ring
The mason is bashed and suffering
The canopy shakes, fall down
The foundation's a hybrid that meshes
And won't let you in

Tell me why?

Falling through aligning the ghost of symmetry
Wrestling the laws of gravity
And kingdoms may fall, oh why?
But in a moment 6 feet of earth
Makes all men of one size

Tell me why do buildings fall down
When it looks like they're touching the sky?
Tell me why is it heavy and loaded
And ready to fall?
Tell me why? Tell me why?
Tell me why? Oh, why?