Behold the tower   brick by brick we raise it   upward to the sky   To reach the heights of heaven   and beyond   With eyes of fire and burning pride   our power cannot be denied   So God Himself can look   at what we've done      Questioning my own intent and motive   Babel, are you really all that far away?   Sometimes I wonder what we'd do   if the applause had died   And we found ourselves performing   to an empty hall upon an empty stage      The eyes of God, or the eyes of man?   No one can serve two masters   in opposing masterplans   But we go our way   And keep climbing higher and higher   But farther to fall   And we build all our strongholds   behind all our walls   But we stand on the threshold   of losing it all      All the glory we crave   All the towers we raise   All the pride we build up to the sky   When the vanity fades   The illusion gives way to a tower   of ashes and lies      Still we seek to build our towers higher and higher   Sometimes when we think   we're so high   the only way to go is down   When it is our pride that takes us   higher and higher   We watch our towers crumble   and in helplessness we hit the ground      Higher and higher   But farther to fall   And we build all our strongholds   behind all our walls   But we stand on the threshold   of losing it all      All the glory we crave   All the towers we raise   All the pride we build up to the sky   When the vanity fades   The illusion gives way to a tower   of ashes and lies