Babel

[00:12.40] 'Cause I know that time has numbered my days

[00:14.90] And I'll go along with everything you say

[00:23.15] But I'll ride home laughing, look at me now

[00:26.40] Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down

[00:35.15] And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons

[00:38.15] And I know their choices color all I've done

[00:47.65] But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son,

[00:49.64] I never lived a year better spent in love

[00:58.65] 'Cause I know my weakness, know my voice

[01:01.90] And I'll believe in grace and choice

[01:08.15] And I know perhaps my heart is farce,

[01:11.90] But I'll be born without a mask

[01:23.90] Like the city that nurtured my greed and my pride,

[01:26.65] I stretch my arms into the sky

[01:35.14] I cry, "Babel! Babel! Look at me now!"

[01:38.40] Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down

[01:47.15] You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl,

[01:50.14] As all we see will slip into the cloud

[01:58.90] So come down from your mountain and stand where we've been,

[02:01.89] You know our breath is weak and our body thin

[02:11.90] Press my nose up, to the glass around your heart

[02:18.40] I should've known I was weaker from the start,

[02:24.89] You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part

[02:29.90] To tear, tear them down,

[02:35.66] Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down

[02:41.40] 'Cause I know my weakness, know my voice,

[02:44.65] And I'll believe in grace and choice

[02:50.40] And I know perhaps my heart is farce,

[02:53.65] But I'll be born without a mask