[Verse 1]
Everybody's gotta have a building program
Sticking that money up, brick-on-brick
Oh, we've got to have praise team worship
Fourteen services, take your pick

[Verse 2]
Everybody's gotta have special music
We don't want dead air when the plate goes by
Oh, it's got to be a three-point sermon
With a poem and a pun to break the ice

[Bridge 1]
Oh, the organ hit the D-chord
It's time to sing the doxology
Stand up! Praise the good Lord
Please define doxology

[Verse 3]
So now we take communion
First, a word to prepare our heads
Joe gets up and talks about politics
And he says a prayer, and we break the bread

[Bridge 2]
We take the cup and we quench our thirst
Dismiss the children to children's church
Stand and greet your neighbor first
Well every aspect is well-rehearsed
[Chorus 1]
Like Mohawks on the scaffold
Heedless of the danger
Don't look down at the city
Brother, it's a long way to fall
Like Mohawks on the scaffold
Strolling on the I-beams
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord
He's our buddy, after all

[Verse 4]
Oh, brother, don't get upset
You see I got my perfect attendance badge:
Sunday school and the VBS
I even pledged allegiance to the Christian flag
(Which I have not to this day found any word in the bible for)

[Verse 5]
Four years in Bible College
Well, I tucked my shirt and I cut my hair
Oh, sister, don't get me wrong
I learned a lot about Jesus there

[Bridge 3]
I went to class and I wore a tie
I learned about who's wrong and why
Point the finger at the other guy
With the clearly flawed theology
[Chorus 2]
Oh, it's like we're Mohawks on the scaffold
Heedless of the danger
Don't look down at the city
Brother, it's a long way to fall
Like Mohawks on the scaffold
Strolling on the I-beams
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord
He's a puzzle in our song

[Spoken]
Well, I hope you're pickin' up on my sarcasm, 'cause I'm laying it on pretty thick
It's a useful tool of communication; even God himself has employed that trick
So if you'll turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Job, chapter thirty-eight
He'll remind us who we're dealing with
I hope you don't mind my paraphrase

[Bridge 4]
Sometimes it's like we're sleeping on an airbus
Like we're taking home a little bear-cub
Like we're hiking Mount Vesuvius
Like we're cooking s'mores in the Burning Bush

[Chorus 3]
Oh, it's like we're Mohawks on the scaffold
Heedless of the danger
Don't look down at the city
Brother, it's a long way to fall
Like Mohawks on the scaffold
Strolling on the I-beams
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, He's so patient...
He's so patient with us all