Dream Theater - Build Me Up, Break Me Down
Time: 2:18
Tonight I am the new messiah
You deify
When I'm no longer desired

to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
Heard in 18 songs (5.5M+ combined views) — most famously in "Build Me Up, Break Me Down" by Dream Theater.
Updated September 23, 2026
Time: 2:18
Tonight I am the new messiah
You deify
When I'm no longer desired

Time: 1:13
You're no immortal
I won't let them deify you
They view you as the new messiah

Time: 1:05
Through the light unending pain
Deify the wretched ones
'Til the darkness comes again

Time: 1:07
In my mind I have a kind of fucked up, distorted image of you
Hinge on my every word and deify me like a god
I want you to forget I'm a human with many flaws

Time: 0:24
Closer to his grace, beyond the void of darkness
Every drop of blood, a chance to deify us
Bring is to our lord our killings transcending,

Time: 3:25
Here I've helped him build a temple
To deify this czar of sin
Now who to blame but I for tying

Time: 1:41
And for whom you have killed
Fools are the followers of masters they deify
Conversion does not save you from death, die

Time: 3:30
Falsely they praise
Deify his majesty
"He's blessed the anointed's

Time: 0:00
Cheering crowds deify their waste
Making love to their disgrace

Time: 3:09
I'm sayin', you niggas is nothin' like me and my
You look at niggas and deify, we defy
Defeat and divide, reheat and refry

Time: 2:03
Feeding the fever whatever the cost
Wanna deify opinion
Evidence is secondary

Time: 0:35
Holding onto ruin as my mind gives out
Deify the undertow
Ruthless pull of seeds still unsown

Time: 1:36
Piercing right into the core
A fallen star to deify
Glowing in the morning light of all demise

Time: 0:25
I wanna let you know that
I am sure there is no need to deify
Possessions, it's a money

Time: 1:51
It's a primeval side that he would hide until he picked the genre
They deify him now peevish minds need predictions altered
Take a peek inside of the crystal ball, that says it all

Time: 0:51
Realize they think they're winning
Deify their foolish prison
What I have to lose was never mine

Time: 1:19
Git suppository, shove the website up your butt
In this horror story they deify intelligence
Papers akin GNU for R Stallman: unfenced values

Time: 0:55
Tell me why
I got tendencies to love and deify
He said love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
