Watch It Fall

Well, it's not so easy now, though it never was back then

We still can't seem to work this out, but you can still pretend

And these tattered walls and burning bridges quickly start to fall

How long until there's nothing left at all?

I've been to California, man, I've seen them city lights

Been stranded in the desert, scorching days and freezing nights

I'll never understand why people try to walk so tall

How long until there's nothing left at all?

Don't you love what you got used to

When we used to feel so free?

Won't you wait a while in silence, love

Watch it fall with me?

Well, the old men said the great Big Apple's rotten to the core

With Wall Street skimming from the till while no one minds the store

And how could someone get so low in a building so damn tall?

How long until there's nothing left at all?

While chunks the size of Delaware are falling off the poles

Our heads are buried in the sand, our leaders dug the hole

Like junkies hooked on fossil fuel, headin' for withdrawal

How long until there's nothing left at all?

Don't you love what you got used to

When we used to feel so free?

Come and wait a while in silence, love

And watch it fall with me

Now the answers in our heads to the questions that were asked

It boils up from underground and leads us to the past

To a place that's long forgotten when we had enough for all

How long until there's nothing left at all?

Don't you love what you got used to

When we tried to make our stand?

The hourglass is growing empty now

Just to leave a pile of sand (Watch it fall)