They’re Building a Wall

They're building a wall

A wall between friends

A wall that justifies

Any means for their ends

A wall between semites

Rich and poor

Brothers and sisters

From not so long before

Many feet thick

And twenty feet high

No one can look through it

And into the eye

Of a person you might know

To whom you might confide

Now just a stranger

On the other side

They're building a wall

Between water and land

So we can eat fruit

And they can eat sand

A wall to make sure

That our orchards will grow

And our kids can get fat

And not need to know

Of the cities in ruins

And the children in fear

That your fathers and brothers

In tanks might be near

A wall to keep quiet

That which you fear most

So you don't have to listen

To your grandfather's ghost

They're building a wall

Between future and past

A wall to keep separate

The chambers of gas

From bulldozers

Gunships

And the tears of a child

Dignity

Love

And all honor defiled

To remove reality

From your facts on the ground

A wall to keep distant

The terrible sound

Of the houses that crumble

And the children that die

A wall to keep separate

The truth from the lie

They're building a wall

And at such a cost

Land

Money and safety

And all the lives lost

A wall made of brick

But bricks can be broken

When the people of zion

Have finally awoken

And said no more walls

No more refugees

No more keeping people

Upon their knees

And then the history books

Will someday recall

Before apartheid was ended

They were building a wall