The Tower Lyrics - Nomeansno

the sword of truth is just another weapon 

let me live for just one more second 

i see a woman, she's holding flowers 

a bouquet of roses that are blood red 

from a burning building, a man leaps to his death 

i stand above these mansions of the dead 

red tombs and above us looms 

the tower 

i see red 

i see a tower against the sky 

beneath a red unblinking eye 

radiowaves curve and cross 

i stand below them - lost! 

above me is a black obelisk 

and the dangers that i risk 

here gather the ghosts of the mind 

that tear my heart and here i find 

all the traps that have been set 

everything i would forget, beneath 

the tower 

i see red 

i see a tower against the sky 

beneath a red unblinking eye 

violence is close at hand 

you are damned if you do 

and if you don't - damned! 

a red eye, tyrant full of hate 

glares from the sky, it's captive state 

if it should blink or deviate 

a thousand worlds would obliterate 

i do not move, nor do i speak 

beneath that hard and pitiless peak 

of concrete, steel and antennae wheels 

the tower 

i see red 

i see a tower against the sky 

beneath a red unblinking eye