Chords with lyrics
Intro:
G+G
Verse:
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If the wall it goes up and the country comes down
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And it’s too tall to get in too late to get out
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And the beaches have barbed wire 'cross every shore
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Would you lay down your gun then you won’t need it no more
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If the wall it goes up would the thing ever fall
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Will it stand there forever long after we’re gone
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As a tombstone for freedom in a world that went wrong
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A augmentedA reminder of just how far we haven’t come
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If the wall it goes up will the temperature drop
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Will the oil rigs that litter this land get pulled up
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Will we find some wild new way to save where we’re at
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Would you do it? No, I doubt it where’s the money in that?’
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If the wall it goes up and you’re stuck here inside
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And caught with skin color some lawmen don’t like
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Will they beat you with the same bars they throw you behind
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If it was you would you resist, give in, or just hide?
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If the wall it goes up and there’s no need to leave
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Could I get all I want from the number on the screen?
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If I dial 1-800 will you bring it to me
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Straight to my couch the American dream
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If the wall it goes up and your Jesus comes back
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And he knocks on the door will you stand to attack
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If he don’t have his papers and he don’t have much cash
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Would you take him in, jail him, or just send him back?
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If the wall it gets built will I get rich like you?
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Can I buy me a fake wife and a ghostwriter too?
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And a Rolls Royce to drive down each broke avenue
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Smiling fat on my high horse through a ghetto so gloom
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If the wall it goes up around the idiot king
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And a new Joan of Arc rises against his name
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Will you stand there beside her, burn her at the stake
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Or glance at it there on the news the next day?
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If the wall it gets built like the walls built before
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Will we be forced to take sides in a new civil war?
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Where it’s East vs West vs South vs North
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Versus people with money versus people so poor
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If the wall it goes up do you think it could stop
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The bombs coming in from countries you pissed off
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With your big mouth blowing up like the 4th of July
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Shut it Donald, shut it please man we don’t wanna die
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But, if the wall it stays down and the people stay free
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And it’s not quite as bad as you said it would be
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What if I let you be you and you let me be me
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That’s a song before the wall for all us to sing
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