Come let us make bricks and burn them hard We'll build a city with a tower for the world and climb so we can reach anything we may propose Anything at all Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper Build me up, then tear down these joining walls So they can't climb at all So they can't climb at all I know why you tore it down that day You thought, that if you got caught we all go away Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out and play You had your revenge Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper Build me up, then tear down these joining walls So they can't climb at all So they can't climb at all Well madness reigned and paradise drowned when Babel's walls came on crashing down Now the echoes roar for the story lived that was hardly understood and never any good So build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper Build me up, then tear down these joining walls So they can't climb at all So they can't climb at all