One hundred years ago isn't long    Would you be blamed for another's wrong    Generations claiming retribution    While your poets & your prophets are yelling "execution"       Who's building the walls now?    Who's building the walls now?    I never held you down    I never put you down    I never held you down    Let's be brothers       Ten billion people all unique    You've only got one thing in common    The color of your cheeks    You put down your brothers who found a way to fit in    It's survival of the fittest    But you say they've betrayed their own kin       Who's building the walls now?    Who's building the walls now?    I never held you down    I never put you down    I never held you down    Let's be brothers       I'll never say you have no right    But the only cure today is not to fight    Hate will not stop hate, I know I'm right    But when you trust a man today whose skin is white       Who's putting the chains on now?    Who's putting the chains on now?    I never held you down    I never put you down    I never held you down    Let's be brothers