We ripped up the railways
And built a giant tower from the ties
Something tall and dark like Babel
He smashed it down with one hand
Threw the ties like matchsticks
And when they landed in the fields
Grew into strange trees dripping of sick honey
Gray waters of clay rippled out to the horizon
And cranes fought the rising tide to build a new way across
In a mansion on the rocks the house was full of birds
A breeze blew in the open windows
Talking nonsense from a broken perch
Feathers ruffled all saying the same thing
We always knew it was dancing birds
We never thought it would come to this
Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
We came upon a sunken fleet
Stuck like a city in the bay mud flats
Teeming with invisible citizen
Broadcasting a tirade of false hopes
From a thicket of radio wires
As we rounded the bend
I couldn't see the tanks and pipes
Of the old refinery
In the gray tide of translucent koi fish
We couldn't find a way upstream
We always knew it was dancing birds
We never thought it would come to this
Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
We always knew it was dancing birds
We never thought it would come to this
Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
…threw the ties like…
…we ripped up the railways…
…in a mansion on the rocks…
…the bay mud flats…
…broadcasting a…
…I couldn't see the tanks…
…invisible citizen…
…gray tide of translucent koi fish…
…teeming with invisible citizen…