[Intro]
"The City Walls"
Album: "The Architecture of the Soul"
Five of Ten
[Verse 1]
One house is a shelter, but a city’s a home.
I’m laying the brick and I’m raising
the dome.
I see them coming from the edge of the dark.
The ones who are looking for a singular spark.
I’m structure for many, I’m base for the weak.
I’m giving a voice to the ones who can't speak.
[Chorus]
1 am the structure, 1 am the base
Foundation set in the holy placel show no fear, I show no ghostl stand my ground at the outer postHe leads the way, He holds the lightl am the pillar in the dead of night.
[Verse 2]
The streets are all leveled, the gates are all wide.
There’s no more reason for people to hide.
We’re building a fortress of kindness and bone.
Where nobody walks on the journey alone.
I stand on the rampart, I look at the plain.
Transforming the loss and the years of the grain.
The foundation is growing, the city is set.
The greatest of chapters hasn't happened just yet.
[Chorus]
1 am the structure, 1 am the base
Foundation set in the holy placel show no fear, I show no ghostl stand my ground at the outer postHe leads the way, He holds the lightl am the pillar in the dead of night.
[Outro]
(Chant: "Build it wide, open the gate.")
“Built it wide, open the gate.”
“Built it wide, open the gate.”
(“Built it wide, open the gate.”)