They built this for me.
I live the same as
The powers that be
You take what you can
I take what I want.
You won't get what you need.
Look in the sky,
That shine so pristine,
They built that for me.
How did you sleep?
I rested well
Haunting your dreams.
(Yes, that was me.)
You'd do the same if you could,
But, they built this for me.
I live the same as the powers that be.

Nothing is sharply defined
Because what's made gets un-made.
I've re-made spaces, changed shapes
Until I made it
And called it all mine.
The finest of fine.
Finery, finally, refined.

My home is a gold-laced palace
In a fenced kingdom of glass.
My own prismatic sheen.
It was plotted when I purchased
A piece of the sky.
All ships ahead,
This is the brightest beacon
For admiring eyes.
Finally refined.

"A city upon a hill"
We cut the grid,
Stripped the blocks,
Gutted New York
And pushed it away.
Now look where I am,
I stand in the clouds
And stare down at the condemned.

Tell me I'm cruel.
It's not how one should think.
You'd do the same if you could.
But, they built this for me


They built this for me.
I live the same as the powers that be
You take what you can
I take what I want.
You won't get what you need.
Look in the sky,
That shine so pristine,
They built that for me.
How did you sleep?
I rested well
Haunting your dreams.
(Yes, that was me.)
You'd do the same if you could,
But, they built this for me.
I live the same as the powers that be.

Nothing is sharply defined
Because what's made gets un-made.
I've re-made spaces, changed shapes
Until I made it
And called it all mine.
The finest of fine.
Finery, finally, refined.

Spare no expense.
Extend where we can spend.
Nothing is sharply defined.
Write the cost on the walls,
On the art, on the light in the sky.
Write it on the shape and the size,
How it imposes itself day into night.
Write it on the oak we've cut
From the forest,ì
Stripped down and remade.
It shines like a stone in our lobby's
Precious display.
Write it for the outer-boroughs
Steeped in urban decay
And the hordes down the blocks
That are out of my way.
Spare no expense...

25 Billion and counting,
Finally refined.
Now, look where I am.
I stand in the clouds
And stare down at the condemned.

Tell me I'm cruel.
It's not how one should think.
You'd do the same if you could.
But, they built this for me.
I live the same as
The powers that be
You take what you can
I take what I want.
You won't get what you need.
Look in the sky,
That shine so pristine,
They built that for me.
How did you sleep?
I rested well
Haunting your dreams.
(Yes, that was me.)
You'd do the same if you could,
But, they built this for me.
I live the same as the powers that be.