The buildings they're building, don't build up much hope for me

As flowers scrape the skies that weep an acid rain Trees bow down and surrender to a Concrete Kingdom

The grass will never grow the birds won't sing again

The buildings overshadow the golden age we hoped we'd see

Nature plays second fiddle to the sombre tune of progress

Flowers got crushed in a rush to build a brighter future

A future too full of people, a future too full of stress

The world caves in, under the weight of concrete and glue

And I saw them build these monsters

It's a far cry from the past I knew

Buildings building up, buildings

The buildings push us further closer than we were before

Menacing above they strangle all we try to conserve

Choking through a hazy air of claustrophobia

Lost without direction, without nature's reserve.

The world caves in, under the weight of concrete and glue

And I saw them build these monsters

It's a far cry from the past I knew

Buildings building up, buildings

Brick by brick, stone by stone

Brick by brick, stone by stone.