Why does it all have to be So temporary We build it up to tear it down Oh, I'm so sick of this Lego town The dollar stores The plastic, course All this junk and we still want more We keep knocking At the rag and bone man's door Soon all my parts will be replaced By rubber guts and metal plates And I'm permanently temporary As man made me Why does it all have to be So temporary They rob the houses Of our homes They chewed the meat And left us bones Well lookie there goes the neighborhood With their windows boarded up in wood Just weeds in a row of rotting teeth Soon every brick will be replaced With sale signs and yellow tape It's permanently temporary As man made me Why does it all have to be So temporary Love and life aren't meant to last You see the proof in photographs Well out with the old and in with the new It'a what we've always been used to It's a shame I got used to loving you Tell my heart its been replaced It got broke too many times to fix It's permanently temporary It's permanently temporary It's permanently temporary As man made me