were building castles in a cave we call reason writing darkness on the walls tryin to block the sun pebbles twigs and straw day by day we bring them oh but darkened by our pride we cant see what weve become oh shadows of providence dance on our walls of confidence can we not hear the words they tell we fight as humanists we close our eyes and raise our fists if this is enlightenment why is it dark as hell were shoving god into a box we call out dated throwing faith away cause we say it makes us blind religion is a crutch a drug to ease the jaded and we claim that god is dead and then proclaim ourselves divine oh shadows of providence dance on our walls of confidence can we not hear the words they tell these walls are imprisoning why aren t we listening we fight as humanists we close our eyes and raise our fists if this is enlightenment why is it dark as hell here comes the light that comes to wipe out the walls that we try to build high cause we think we can hide so we say to ourselves the next wave won t fell the next castle we build because we ll build it too well so we bring in more straw to make the bricks for the wall and when the light finally comes even this one won t fall we work till we re beat sweat and bleed in the heat because we d rather just die than admit our defeat  hiding hiding oh hiding hiding from the dawn all is vanity all is vanity oh dear humanity where is your sanity dying dying oh dying for god to turn the lights on all is vanity all is vanity oh dear humanity where is your sanity shadows of providence dance on our walls of confidence can we not hear the words they tell these walls are imprisoning why am i not listening we fight as humanists we close our eyes and raise our fists if this is enlightenment why is it dark as hell oh dear humanity where is your sanity 