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?