There's not a house in this country I haven't built
That I don't look at every time I go by
And if one stone's crooked, I still notice it
The people who lives there might not notice it
But, I notice it
Stone's my business, stone's my life
He builds a house
With his hands
Thirty years go by it stands
It stands where nothing stood
A house of stone
The mason sleeps real good
He does his work
His work day flies
Quittin' time's a big surprise
And then it's one more stone
To get just right
There's always one more stone
Before the night
Every house he builds
Every stone he lays
It's not just making money
And countin' off the days
I daydream all the time about stone
One day, I'm gonna build me a stone cabin down on the green river
I'm gonna build stone cabinets in the kitchen
Everything's stone
Seems like all my dreams have a piece of rock mixed up in 'em
He builds a house
With his hands
A hundred years go by it stands
It tells you who he was
A life goes fast
But the work a mason does
It's made to last
But the work the mason does
There's nothin' on this earth gonna last forever
But with stone
You're getting pretty close
It's made
To last
