Building the Towers

March until your feet bleed Chant until you can't speak Scream until your ears ring The people cry freedom Scale the cliff up to the peak Climb until your nails bleed Take it out into the street The people cry freedom [Chorus] This is the time And this is the place We march into the fire In the darkest of times On the world's largest stages We stand, we rise to revise... Ring the bell of liberty Resist control that they need Absolute supremacy The people cry freedom Turn around the other cheek The bodies pile at their feet Still we rise and never cease The people cry freedom [Chorus x2] Again we face into the void Embrace the fear ‒ grace the toil Our blood is soaked into the soil The people cry freedom To build it up we tear it down Bring the old men to the ground And banish now this treachery The people cry freedom, the people cry freedom [Chorus x2]

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Oh ‒ death of a dream You, you feel, that I Should give you what is mine Take from my family Take from when I die These, these hands, so scarred Work the soil 'til now I'm gone Pay for protection Taxed to death and again Oh ‒ death of a dream Boots, you hear, marching Take you off in the night Take your will and you rights No one can claim it's right Laws, they will no kneel Abuse them as they feel Power, they crave and they take Ignorants, bound in chains Oh ‒ death of a dream [Chorus:] Death of a dream ‒ when the light is gone inside Death of a dream ‒ rights of kings denied Death of a dream ‒ when a lie is not a lie Death of a dream ‒ liberty has died My mind's no longer my own Persecuted for my thoughts Motives hidden They've got no interest in me Dreams, they are grounding out Like a flame that's been snuffed out Desire's been crushed Give me faith to believe Oh ‒ death of a dream [Chorus]

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

When the dreams turn to dust They turn to ashes in your mouth See the wave approaching Their intentions suck you down [Pre-Chorus:] In the blink of an eye We fought for so long It's a role reversal It will bring us down ‒ but no out [Chorus:] This is the age of betrayal ‒ you want us down on our hands and knees This is the age of betrayal ‒ a Judas kiss and silver in your fist This is the age of betrayal ‒ gleaming in your eyes, the ability to lie This is the age of betrayal When the steel turns to rust When the walls are tumbling down Like the towers falling You see them crumble down [Pre-Chorus, Chorus] [Bridge:] Clouds on a pale grey sky A tapestry woven with compromise Delusions tied to a scheme Lies they sell are not the dream Spoon-fed answers, no questions Choking down that bitter pill Reaping the winds of destruction You exercised, exercised your will

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Leverage on leverage The engines of wealth Fuel for the fire It consumes itself System collapses Bodies fall from the sky Death's angel passes by Leaves you asking why [Chorus:] A spike impales your soul All your worth has been inborn The fall from grace so hard and cold The system ‒ you've lost control Stepping off the cliffs A striking leap of faith Economies built on nothing less Than belief and the will to create System collapses Bodies fall from the sky Light of the world enters in She reaches for the sky [Chorus] Building castles upon nothing Building towers on the sand Chasing phantoms through the hall Waiting for the axes to fall [Chorus x2] The system ‒ you've lost control

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

If the roles were reversed Could you take a walk in my shoes? They're resting on eggshells And I've got so much to lose If I gave voice to those terms When I conveyed my mind Or I said what I was thinking I'd be destroyed or ostracized [Pre-Chorus:] Fear of offense Fear of ruin Fear of violence Fear of the end [Chorus:] Turn the tables on me Turn the tables on you Everyone's inside out Change the rules of the game Play the game, level the blame Inversion of all you know Inversion of all you know An olive branch held our for appeasement Taken along with our hand A gun to the head of logic Reason already shot out back An elegant source of irony The poetry of the newly damned Dropping the lamp at the golden door Undermining all for which we stand [Pre-Chorus, Chorus x2]

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

10 o'clock, let's watch the news tonight See the world burning itself alive See the people suffering, a third world mentality Elect another warlord to come and set them free [Chorus:] You keep on talking but you're never making sense Trying to convince me of your high intelligence But I've heard that faith without works is dead Just a voice without a face, or a mouth without a head Too many fanatics looking for a Christ To be the one who makes the sacrifice But their own blood must be too high cost So it's our soldiers lives are lost [Chorus 2:] You keep on talking but you're never making sense Trying to convince me of your high intelligence But I've heard that faith without works is dead Just a voice without a face, or a mouth without a head The words you spit scratch the itch of my ears But it seems to be enough to stave off everybody's fears But two weeks later you change what you said Words without a voice from a mouth without a head [Bridge:] All we see ‒ scenes that confirm our darkened fears All they do ‒ suffocate us through our TV screens Burn my eyes with their lies and deceit Take us down to where liars feed... [Chorus 2]

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

The cold white light of sorrow The burning black ice of night It's darkest before the dawning On our desecration day Forging our tools to weapons Bring to bear on everyone Horsemen ride across the land On the desecration day [Chorus 1:] You can see the towers falling Watch them crumble to the dust You can feel the nations burning On our desecration day The devil's on the horizon A fiery gale at his feet "Build your towers unto me" All your tears, your pleading denied The threat of war was foreseen The fist of heaven cracks the sky Broken souls lie in defeat Nothing lives when the horsemen rides [Chorus 2:] You can see the towers falling Watch them crumble to the dust You can feel the nations burning On our desecration day You can watch the bridges burning See them blackened into ash You can feel your fear returning On our desecration day [Chorus 1, Chorus 2]

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

[The Icon:] I stand at the golden door A watchman against the threat of war I'll enslave those who would betray And shelter weary souls who's willingly remain [The Icon:] They came across the seven seas The weary find their rest in me On my scale of judgment I will weigh I judge you by your actions Feel the wrath of warmth of my embrace [Chorus x4:] My torched held high My banner raised If it weren't for me You would be my slave I call your name I will set you free Your poor and oppressed I am Liberty [The Exile:] Queen of freedom let me into your land Queen of freedom hold me up when I can't Queen of freedom let me into this place Queen of freedom hold me in your embrace Queen of freedom with arms open wide Queen of freedom hold up your light Queen of freedom standing on the shore Queen of freedom at the golden door [The Icon:] I will let you in

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

[The Ghost:] What would our fathers have thought? What would they say right now? Our house is burning down Burning down This is not what we bled for This is not why our sons have died Our house is coming down And we are still inside [The Ghost:] I'm in the air you breath I haunt the halls of history You can sense me all around I'm the one who denied the crown I'm the one who shed a tear When our sons and daughters died right here On blood-soaked lands, with dirty hands We grieve yet raise the flag [The Ghost (Chorus):] I watch over you I see the evil that you choose We fought and died for truth That you twist and the abuse I am watching over you I shed a tear for what you do From inside looking out I am the ghost inside your house [The Ghost:] When threatened from the east To defend my soil I'll give up peace Half a million of my children dead On sands of foreign lands Now sterile to this day So with all who dare betray When men stand tall ‒ with steely eyes Liberty will guide the way [Chorus] [Bridge:] [The Icon:] Do you hear them? [Ghost:] I can hear them marching [The Icon:] Do you see them? [Ghost:] I can see them massing [The Icon:] Listen to them [Ghost:] Hear the soldiers marching [The Icon:] Hear them coming [The Icon & The Ghost:] They're coming, they're calling [The Icon, The Ghost & The Exile:] What would our fathers have thought? What would they say right now? Our house is burning down Burning down This is not what we bled for This is not why our sons have died Our house is coming down And we are still inside [Chorus x2] [The Icon & The Ghost:] What would our fathers have thought? What would they say right now? Our house is burning down Burning down This is not what we bled for This is not why our sons have died Our house is coming down And we are still inside

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Slave to your pride ‒ not much to your shame Your evidence of treason for years has been insane Once you set your hands to it, you could not be denied No longer will our will stay down deep inside [Pre-Chorus:] No longer can it be The lip service, the pandering Tell me what I want to hear It goes out the other ear [Chorus:] Brick by brick and stone by stone Man will try to reach the throne What once was now is nevermore The hand of God hast shut the door Building bricks of straw and clay Snow-blind fools will rule the day You climb in pride but fall in shame The fist of God will smite thy name, smite thy name Dark as the midnight hour, our future looks so bleak Write these words upon your heart, forever they shall keep What a man sows with his hands, so shall he also reap Revolution speaks to you: the mind, the soul, the feat [Pre-Chorus, Chorus] We laid down our arms and raised flag Of purest white and armistice Into the abyss we will be dragged We never thought it'd come to this [Chorus]

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025