BUILD INC.

What are they building in there? I am in the crane, I am the crane My arm and the lever are the same thing Picking up and putting down pillars of steel What am I building in there? I am the means to an end and at the end of my rope What am I building down there? At the end of the day when my feet are back on the ground, I need to remind myself that I am a woman not actually a Liebherr NC-LH 13-55 tower crane What am I building in here? I look at my clipboard for the overview, the next steps are all lined up, still I am wondering what am I building in there? For now it is a tower the height of a car Next month it should be reaching for the stars And the old man behind the fence goes: What are they building in there? Another building we didn’t ask for Another building no one can afford What’s that sound? What’s that smell? Someone’s lighting a cigarette and taking a break Whatever they’re building in there, he definitely doesn’t care Got to make a living when you’re living to make Things that nobody pays you to create One block on top of another block on top of another block and so on This pattern has to go on the mayor’s going to come ‘round with his golden scissors to cut the red ribbon on the 3rd of May 2097