I Built You a Tower (A) Lyrics – Death Cab for Cutie

Read the complete I Built You a Tower (A) Lyrics by Death Cab for Cutie from the album I Built You a Tower along with song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Death Cab For Cutie’s music, you can also explore Envy the Birds and How Heavenly a State, two other songs by Death Cab For Cutie.

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