I Could Build You A Tower-Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

[00:14.34]You just sit there in silence whilst the world cries out in vain [00:19.17]On the television screens and the newspaper headlines [00:21.98]we read today [00:23.43] [00:24.56]There's a war going on in the middle east and the fallout [00:28.56]affects us all [00:29.37] [00:30.36]but nobody out there's prepared to talk [00:33.30] [00:38.37]There's a war going on on our own front door [00:41.32]step with the Jews and Islam-aphoebes [00:43.96]because every time a bomb [00:45.96]goes off we get religious probes [00:49.33]There will always be [00:50.71]extremists acting in their names of god [00:53.90] [00:54.78]But the gods they worship will never hear them call [00:58.15] [01:04.58]I could build you a tower [01:06.52] [01:07.28]I could set you apart from all [01:09.90]the wars and the violence towards the pure of heart [01:15.15]I could build you a tower [01:18.08]I could build you a tower [01:20.96]I could build you a tower [01:24.04]but they'll only burn it down [01:25.18] [01:42.43]There's an 8 year old boy in Lebanon [01:44.43]with a rifle in his hands [01:46.49] [01:47.49]his parents betray his innocence [01:49.93]as he's old enough to be a man [01:52.24] [01:52.80]as a teenage boy in Columbine fires automatic rounds [01:57.24] [01:58.30]into the hordes of students as bodies hit the ground [02:02.07] [02:06.63]The waters rise to enormous heights off [02:09.57]the coast of North Korea [02:11.07] [02:12.01]with all the weapons testing our worlds investing [02:14.88]in nuclear fear [02:16.46] [02:17.46]I'm counting down the days until this earth destroys itself [02:22.09] [02:22.97]through our ignorance gluteny and wealth [02:25.90] [02:32.83]I could build you a tower [02:34.59] [02:35.52]I could set you apart from all [02:37.39] [02:38.22]the wars and the violence towards the pure of heart [02:42.66] [02:43.67]I could build you a tower [02:46.47]I could build you a tower [02:49.29]I could build you a tower [02:52.22]but they'll only burn it down [02:54.14] [03:03.71]I could build you a tower [03:04.49] [03:10.86]I could set you apart from all [03:14.24]the wars and the violence towards the pure of heart [03:17.99] [03:41.80]I could build you a tower [03:44.37]I could build you a tower [03:47.12]I could build you a tower [03:49.05] [03:49.99]but they'll only burn it down [03:53.24] [04:12.05]