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After the Tower
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After the Tower was released on July 10, 2026 by Cathode Saint as a part of the album The Mirror Test
July 10, 2026
LabelCathode Saint
LanguageEnglish
BPM69
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

We said: let us build us a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven
We had one word between us then, and the one word was enough
Every hand knew every other hand. Every stone knew where it went
I have never been that close to anyone, before or since
The air is thin up here now
The scaffolding holds nothing but the wind
This is after the tower
This is the morning we woke and could not understand each other
The word came apart in our mouths, and the work came down
I am standing in the thing we reached for
This is after the tower
It did not fall the way I feared, no fire, no flood, no hand
Just a morning the words stopped meaning the same to everyone
And we left off to build the city, each of us alone
Carrying half a language no one else could hear
I call out to the ones I built it with
We all came down the mountain speaking different tongues
This is after the tower
This is the quiet that the reaching cost, not punishment, just after
The Lord confounded the language of all the earth
And the earth went on, in pieces, in a smaller, stranger word
This is after the tower
I went down to the rubble, looking for who to blame
And the shape in the broken stone, the height it almost reached
The shape in the stone was mine
I opened what I should have left shut. I cannot close it now
And at the bottom of the broken thing, one small thing kept breathing
Hope. Hope remained
And I know now what hope is for
Hope is the thing that will hand us the next stone
And we will lift our eyes, and we will say it again
This is after the tower
Let us build us a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.
Written by: Brian Allen Thurlow
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