come let us make bricks and burn them hard we ll build a city with a tower for the world and climb so we can reach anything we may propose anything at all build me up tear me down like a skyscraper build me up and tear down these joining walls so they can t climb at all i know why you tore it down that day you thought that if you got caught we d all go away like a spoiled little baby who can t come out to play you had your revenge build me up tear me down like a skyscraper build me up and tear down these joining walls so they can t climb at all well madness reigned and paradise fell when babel s walls came crashing down now the echoes roar for a story writ that was hardly understood and never any good build me up tear me down like a skyscraper build me up and tear down these joining walls so they can t climb at all