NoMeansNo Lyrics
"The Tower"

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 death.
I stand above these mansions of the dead.
Red tombs, and above us looms

The Tower! x8

I see red!
I see red!
I see red!
I see...

I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red, unblinking eye.

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

The Tower! x8

I see red!
I see red!
I see red!
I see

I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red, unblinking eye.

Violence is close at hand.
You are damned if you do, and if you don't,
Damned!
A red-eyed tyrant, full of hate,
Glares from the sky, its captive state.
If it should blink, or deviate,
A thousand worlds would obliterate!
I do not more, nor do I speak,
Beneath that hard and pitiless peak
Of concrete, steel, and antennae wheels...

The Tower! x8

I see red!
I see red!
I see red!
I see

I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red, unblinking eye.