Walls

Walls, high and low, thick and thin

They keep you out, they keep you in

Walls, narrow and wide, round or square

With warning signs "Watch out", "Beware"

Brick by brick they built them but it seems to me

Brick by brick they built them where they shouldn't be

We should be building bridges to a better day

Where no walls would stand in the way

Walls, here and there, everywhere

In every city, every town

We would have that better day

If all the walls came tumbling down

Brick by brick, at times they're of a different kind

Brick by brick, they built around the heart and mind

Sometimes lasting longer than the walls that are made of stone

Keeping us apart and alone

These are walls that we don't see

But we built between the you and me

Made of broken dreams and wounded feelings that go on

Like walls we wished to go away

Could we have ourselves that better day

If we took the chance to simply say that we forgive

And then we'd forget they'd be gone

Oh walls, here and there, everywhere

In every city, every town

We would have that better day

If all the walls came tumbling down