New York is losing its vantage Into the Atlantic The punishment of your midwives Service for brick and mortar Your temple of empire Your purchasing power is your right to survive What else could be expected? Someone is sending Something unknown into our lives Far from the storied fables The voice of an angel Sends the strong into a terrored state She holds the sword of anger And the face of a stranger Can you trust her to know the way? Don't bother setting the table Eat in haste now Mark the lintel and lock the door Tonight I cry, I cry alone Weak and huddled, far from home As the colossus falls into the sea With the light she held for you and me Never a time quite like this The language of lightning Is never before and never again And if the heart is harder The greater the power All of his chariots and all of his men Stilled and silent The ending of violence Someone turned the TV off Tonight alone, alone I cry Dying because I didn't die When the colossus fell into the sea She took the lightning bolt for you and me How many times she tried before To lead us where there was no war Where night could not eclipse the day How many times we fell away