SKYSCRAPER

SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER TOWER OVER ME
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER CROWN OF THE CITY
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER ALL I EVER SEE
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER YOU'RE LIKE GODS TO ME

There-people go to work
All wear suits and skirts
There- people contemplate
Their next coffee break
There- execs analyze
Will the public buy?
There- big shots set the trends
For the little guy

SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER EVERY SHADE OF GREY
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER PUSH THE SKY AWAY
SKY-SKY-HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH ABOVE THE PAST
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST?

LOOK UP UP UP UH-UH-UH-UP
LOOK AT AT AT TAT TAT TAT-AT
LOOK UP UP UP UH-UH-UH-UP
LOOK UP-PICTURE ONE OF THE

People staring out of windows
Way up on the 44th floor
Slowly suicide smoking cigarettes
Watching people strive below them
Daring traffic to run over them
Are they people? Are they insects?
Human tides swarm like pests!

Walking lonely on the sidewalk
When a light rain slicks the street
Anxious Gracious faces fly by
Hardly see and never recognize
They're all leaving office buildings
Hopping buses-running for cover
I don't know them-they don't know me
No one ever knows the other

SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER TOWER OVER ME
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER CROWN OF THE CITY
SKY-SKY-HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH UP IN THE NIGHT
SKY-SKY-SKY-SKY-SKYSCRAPER DAZZLE ME WITH LIGHT