Pyramid

What goes up, must come down

What must rise, must fall

And what goes on in your life

Is writing on the wall

If all things must fall

Why build a miracle at all

If all things must pass

Even a miracle won't last

What goes up, must come down

What must stand alone?

And what goes on, in your mind

Is turning into stone

If all things must fall

Why build a miracle at all

If all things must pass

Even a pyramid won't last



How can you be so sure?

How do you know what the earth will endure?

How can you be so sure?

That the wonders you've made in you life

Will be seen

By the millions who'll follow to visit the site

Of your dream?



What goes up, must come down

What goes round, must come round

What's been lost, must be found

And I could easily fall from grace

Then another would take my place

For the chance to behold your face



As the days of my life are but grains of sand

As they fall from your open hand

At the call of the wind's command



Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say

The fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way

To read between the lines, that lead between the lines, that lead me to you



All that I ask you

Is, show me how to follow you and I'll obey

Teach me how to reach you I can't find my own way

Let me see the light, let me be the light



As the sun turns slowly around the sky

Till the shadow of night is high

The eagle will learn to fly



As the days of his life are but grains of sand

As they fall from your open hand

And vanish upon the land



Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say

The fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way

To read between the lines, that lead between the lines, that lead me to you

Show me how to follow you and I'll obey

Teach me how to reach you I can't find my own way

Let me see the light, let me be the light

And so, with no warning, no last goodbye

In the dawn of the morning sky

The eagle will rise again

Don't look back cause there's one more river

Don't turn your back you got one more river to cross

No more fightin' and no more dyin'

No more cheatin' and no more lyin'



Don't look back cause there's one more river

Don't turn your back you got one more river to cross

Don't start askin' the rhyme or the reason

Don't hold back it's the time of the season



One more mile and one more road

One last bridge and one less load

One more river

Don't look back cause there's one more river

Don't turn your back you got one more river to cross



Don't start askin' the rhyme or the reason

Don't hold back it's the time of the season

One more mile and one more road

One last bridge and one less load

One more river

One more river

Well I sympathise completely but there's nothing I can do

I am just a humble servant with a message here for you

Well I know you have good reasons and there's things you've got to do

But the boatman won't be waiting and he's leaving here with you

And you can't take it with you

No matter what you do

No you can't take it with you

Not the place you're going to 



(One more mile, one more road, one last bridge, one less load)



Well I sympathise completely but there's nothing I can do

I am just obeying orders, I'm a simple soul like you

Well you really are persuasive, but I've heard it all before

And the boatman's getting restless as he stands upon the shore

And you can't take it with you

No matter what you do

No you can't take it with you

Not the place you're going to 

Can't take it with you

There are pyramids in my head

There's one underneath my bead

And my lady's getting cranky

Every possible location

Has a simple explanation

And it isn't hanky-panky



I had read

Somewhere in a book, they improve all your food and your wine

It said, that everything you grow in your garden would taste pretty fine

Instead, all I ever get is a pain in the neck and a

Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap



I've consulted all the sages

I could find in the yellow pages

But there aren't many of them

And the myan panoramas

On my pyramid pajamas

Haven't helped my little problem

I've been told

Someone in the know can be sure that his luck is as

Good as gold, money in the bank and you don't even pay for it

If you fold, a dollar bill in the shape of the pyramid that's printed on the 

	back

It's no lie

You can keep the edge of a razor as sharp as an 

Eagle's eye, you can grow a hedge that is vertically straight over

Ten feet high, all you really need is a pyramid and just a little luck

I had read, somewhere in a book, they improve all your food and wine

I'd been told, someone in the know can be sure of his good luck

It's no lie, all you need is a little bit of pyramidic help

Look at me now, a shadow of the man I used to be

Look through my eyes and through the years of lonliness you'll see



To the times in my life when I could not stand to lose, a simple game

And the least of it all was the fortune and the fame

But the dream seemed to end just as soon as it had begun, was I to know?

For the least thing of all that was on my mind, was the close at the 

		end of the show

The shadow of a lonely man, feels nobody else

In the shadow of a lonely, lonely man

I can see myself



(Looking out of nowhere, looking out of nowhere)



But the sounds of the crowds when they come to see me now, is not the same

And the jest of it all is I can't recall my name

But I'll cling to a hope till I can't hold on anymore, anymore

And for all the acclaim I am all alone and I see as I look through the door



The shadow of a lonely man, there's nobody else

In the shadow of a lonely, lonely man

I can see myself



Look at me now, a shadow of the man I used to be