Babel

Cause I know that time has numbered my days
And I go along with everything you say

But I write home laughing, look at me now
The walls of my town they come crumbling down

And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
And I know their choices color all I've done

But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son
I never lived a year better spent in love

Cause I know my weakness, know my voice
I'll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce
But I'll be born without a mask

Like the city that nursed my greed and my pride
I stretch my arms into the sky

I cry Babel, Babel, look at me now,
The walls of my town they come crumbling down

You ask where will we stand
In the winds that will howl
As though the sea will slip into the cloud

So come down from your mountain
And stand where we've been you know
Our breath is weak and our bodies thin.

Press my nose up to the glass around your heart
I should have known
I was weaker from the start.
You'll build your walls
And I'll play my bloody part.
To tear, tear them down.

Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down.
Know my weakness, know my voice.
I believe in grace and choice.
I know that perhaps my heart is farce
But I know that I'll be born without a mask