There's a picture of a wall across the TV screen   There are people milling 'round on either side   They've been waiting for the border to come tumbling down   Some for years and others all their lives      The guards receive their orders and the keys are turned   Rusty gates swing slowly open wide   And long forgotten dreams and aspirations are awoken   And take to foot to reach the other side      It's just a wall, but it's kept them in for all this time   Just a wall, but either side is prison   Keep them in or lock them out, it's very much the same   But now the times have changed and changing has begun   It's just a wall and now the wall must come undone      There's a fence between my next door neighbor's house and mine   There are two big dogs on leashes and in chains   There are curtains pulled and doorways closed and secrets kept   And iron bars on many window panes      And these neighbors barely manage "how you doing'?   And the boundaries of the houses are clearly drawn   But there's a thicker line that's carried in the air and no one sees it   And there's little can be done until it's gone      It's just a wall, but it's kept us in for all this time   Just a wall, a wall of isolation   Now you see it, now you don't, it's very much the same   But now the times have changed and changing has begun   It's just a wall and now the wall must come undone      There's a picture of a wall inside the mirror   A reflection of the hostages inside   There's a child, there's a victim, there's a fool and there's a friend   And the bars are reinforced with fear and pride   But the wall I built around this heart protected me   It was constructed out of innocence and pain   And now it's taking every ounce of strength I have to pull it down   But I'm determined that it won't be built again      It's just a wall, but it's kept me in for all this time   Just a wall, but its usefulness is ended   Change the world or change the mind, it's very much the same   Nothing changes 'til we're changing one by one   And when we do is when the walls will come undone   Every battle will be won      Every wall will come undone