Brick by brick you built a mansion   Piece by piece it seems   You're tearing it down      Once you walked so tall and handsome   Now nobody even wants you around   Now you're just some kind of   Leftover clown   Now you're like Quasi Modo crying      As you look in the mirror   At what you've become   Killing the thing that you love   Like Lennon's assassin   Lennon's assassin      Reaching for Venus De Milo   But she's never gonna hold you tight   You plant plutonium silos   Then you blister from the sun that's too bright   Like a vampire stepping into the light   Just a victim of your own greed as you      Look in the mirror   At what you've become   Killing the world that you love   Like Lennon's assassin   Lennon's assassin      The genius of a generation   Blown away just like a leaf on the wind   And now you're looking for salvation   But you can't forget the places you've been   And you can't erase a lifetime of sin   And you can't escape the answers as you      Look in the mirror   At what you've become   Dredging the river for what you have done   Killing the thing that you love   Like Lennon's assassin   Lennon's assassin