David Rovics - They're Building A Wall lyrics

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