A Wall Around | |
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Travelling around is a good opportunity To make yourself a picture Of mankind all around the world How they live and how they feel The circumstances of their existence This is what I happened to see Travelling around I came to many places Villages, cities and uninhabited spaces There was a difference between each kind And this difference wasn't very hard to find Up on a hill there stood a city With an ancient cathedral but what a pity There is a wall around a city It's ancient, made out of stone With legends and songs about it And its purpose in long-gone wars But this wall around that city Keeps telling us to move on Moving on I thought alright Ancient walls are much-loved sights But could I live within them? I don't know I don't want to try though time would surely show Out in the countryside between the woods and fields There are no walls to lock the people out or in Except those who hold the roofs against the wind and rain But what do I see there setting my heart in pain There is a wall around a country It's modern, of concrete, dull and grey With towers and watchers but without doors To fulfill its purpose in oncoming wars And this wall around that country Keeps telling us that we can't stay So I left that place and wondered What chance freedom had in those parts And what reasons they had to build that awful wall And what feelings deep inside their hearts Please forgive me but I can't believe That this situation wouldn't make me grieve Where is the bright world all the poems tell I really fear that it has gone to hell There is a wall around the hearts of the people It's eternal and it blackens their minds Makes them lonely, cold-hearted and tired of life Seeing their faces I wonder how they can survive And this wall around the hearts of the people Keeps telling us that we should open our minds back to the bandpage zur�ck zur Bandseite | |