There's a bump in the basement   There's a knocking on the wall   In the pumping of the pistons   I swear I heard you call      There's a bump in the basement   There's a hole in the floor   There's a guard in the garden   Locking up the door      There's a rumble in the floorboards   No shutting out the sound   And the workers down below me   Digging underground      Feel the building all around me   Like a wrap of armoured skin   But the more we are protected   The more we're trapped within      Tell it like it is   Till there's no misunderstanding   When you strip it right back   Man feed machine   Machine feed man      Tell it like it is (And on this land, we cast our fortune)   Till there's no misunderstanding (And on this ground)   You make up what you like (We make our home)   Man feed machine   Machine feed man      â?¦      Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building   Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building   Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building   Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building   Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building   Brick by brick by brick by brick we're building