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   Anjd 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