it’s just a front so tear down these walls/ like jericho– let em fall/ it’s just a hype/
a plastic paradise– rip open the skies/ rip open the skies

statues cannot breathe/ they made them out of stone/ don’t make yourself at home
this life we leave it’s only skin and bone/ don’t make yourself at home

man made towers/ high rise to the sky/ will never reach - it’s much to high
you can simulate but as hard as we try/ it’s just a reply it’s just a reply

i’ve counted her towers/ i’ve walked in her streets
saw the needle’s eye where her fire walls meet/ we’ll tell our children
cities coming down/ rip open the skies

2006 - David Zach

Behind the Song:
"I wrote the piano part for 'Statues' in Orange City, IA on this old upright piano. Paul and I struggled quite a bit to find a guitar part that would work for this song which ended up being the title track on the album. Some of my favorite moments on the album are on this song. Some of the atmospheric guitar stuff paul did is amazing. We used MIDI to send the keyboard signal back through an amp to get some of the texture on the low end of the keys at times. I hear that the sky is going to rip open some day and that the city is coming down. All of our baggage won't fit through the needle's eye." - David Zach (Remedy Drive)