The sword of truth is just another weapon
Let me live for just 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 [Bm]above us looms
The tower
I see ɾed
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a ɾed unblinking eye
Radiowaves curve and [Bm]cross
I stand [Bm]below them [A]- lost!
Above me is a black obelisk
And the dangers that I ɾisk
Here gather the ghosts of the mind
That tear my [A]heart and [Bm]here I find
All the tɾaps that have been set
Everything I would forget, beneath
The tower
I see ɾed
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a ɾed unblinking eye
Violence is close at hand
You are damned if you [A7do
And if you [A7don't - damned!
A ɾed eye, tyrant full of hate
Glares from the sky, it's captive state
If it should blink or deviate
A thousand [Bm]worlds would obliterate
I do not move, nor do I speak
Beneath that hard and [Bm]pitiless peak
Of concrete, steel and [Bm]antennae wheels
The tower
I see ɾed
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a ɾed unblinking eye
