We ripped up the railways

And built a giant tower from the ties

Something tall and dark like Babel

He smashed it down with one hand

Threw the ties like matchsticks

And when they landed in the fields

Grew into strange trees dripping of sick honey

Gray waters of clay rippled out to the horizon

And cranes fought the rising tide to build a new way across

In a mansion on the rocks, the house was full of birds

A breeze blew in the open windows

Talking nonsense from a broken perch

Feathers ruffled all saying the same thing

We always knew it was dancing birds

We never thought it would come to this

Aah aah

Aah aah aah

We came upon a sunken fleet

Stuck like a city in the bay mud flats

Teeming with invisible citizen

Broadcasting a tirade of false hopes

From a thicket of radio wires

As we rounded the bend

I couldn't see the tanks and pipes

Of the old refinery

In the gray tide of translucent and koi fish

We couldn't find a way upstream

We always knew it was dancing birds

We never thought it would come to this

Aah aah

Aah aah aah

We always knew it was dancing birds

We never thought it would come to this

Aah Aah

Aah aah aah

Threw the ties like

We ripped up the railways

In a mansion on the rocks

The bay mud flats

Broadcasting a

I couldn't see the tanks

Invisible citizen

Gray tide of translucent and koi fish

Teeming with invisible citizen