Lyrics: I Built You A Tower (A)

I built you a tower

A tower in my mind

A place that no one else

No one else would ever find

'Cause I needed you

I needed you contained

You'd run circles 'round

Circles 'round my brain


Until I couldn't think

Until I couldn't think of anyone else


At first the silence felt

Felt like an old friend

From whom I was estranged

But finally made amends

But into this void

Into this empty space

All my sleeping fears

They began to race


Until I couldn't think

Until I couldn't think of anything else

Until I couldn't think of anything else


I thought that I could keep

Could keep you locked away

That in this soundless spire

Was where you'd always stay

But there was no shape

That you could not escape

What a fool I was

To think that I was safe


And now I cannot think

And now I cannot think of anyone else


Oh how this penchant is a curse

All the way from the cradle to the hearse

And there are days when I wish you'd just become

An acquaintance or a time-to-time someone


I built you a tower

A tower in my mind

A place that no one else

No one else would ever find

'Cause I needed you

I needed you contained

You'd run circles 'round

Circles 'round my brain


And now I cannot think

And now I cannot think of anything else

And now I cannot think

And now I cannot think of anyone else