Nomeansno - The Tower lyrics

[Verse 1] The sword of truth is just another weapon Let me live for one more second I see a woman She's holding flowers A bouquet of roses that are blood red From a burning building, a man leaps to his d**h I stand above these mansions of the dead Red tombs and above us looms [Chorus] The Tower [x8] I see red [x4] I see a tower against the sky Beneath a red unblinking eye [Verse 2] Radio waves curve and cross I stand below them - Lost! Above me is a black obelisk And the dangers that I risk Here gather the ghosts of the mind That tear my heart and here i find All the traps that have been set Everything i would forget, beneath [Chorus] [Verse 3] Violence is close at hand You are damned if you do And if you don't - Damned! A red eye, a tyrant full of hate Glares from the sky, it's captive state If it should blink or deviate A thousand words would obliterate I do not move, nor do i speak Beneath that hard and pitiless peak Of concrete, steel and antenna wheels [Chorus]