Fourteen Architects

Fourteen Architects with palaces of porcelain

And smoking jackets meant to sit for hours

Fourteen Architects, the gutters aren't for stepping in

You lack the last connection in your towers

And when the inspector surveyed your work

He discovered it of no great worth

Disappointed, His forehead furrowed

And He sent you - to the unemployment bureau

Fourteen Architects, I never trusted what you said

In half measures you measured out the truth

Fourteen Architects, I never loved a thing you did

You vilified the innocence of you

Fourteen Architects, what you said and what you meant

Are two completely different things to me

Fourteen Architects, all your empty arguments

Are not the hospitality I need

And when the inspector surveyed your work

He discovered it of no great worth

Disappointed, His forehead furrowed

And He sent you - to the unemployment bureau

Watch out kid!

Fourteen Architects

Fourteen Arguments

And what they said

And what they did

That wasn't what He meant

Fourteen Architects, no more to plague the least of them

Who dug the holes and put them in their graves

Fourteen Architects, buried in the basement

Beneath the ivory monuments they made