Higher Wall
Challenging Boundaries: Resistance Amidst Division
Lyrics
We're out here on the borders with our favourite few possessions
We are living on the borders with minimal possessions.
Traded stories whispered round the fire
Sharing stories quietly around a fire.
As shadows in the searchlights, mugshots in the files
Existing in the shadows, captured in searchlights, and identified in files.
Waiting in the camps behind the wire
Waiting in camps enclosed by wire.
Kick the door until it opens, what you have you cannot hold
Persistently trying to open doors despite challenges; possessions are transient.
We are young, forever hungry, you are fat and growing old
A contrast between the perpetual hunger of the young and the aging process.
Still every day you try to build a higher wall
Despite challenges, there is a continuous effort to build barriers.
We pick the leaves of coca, we stack the crates of cola
Engaged in activities related to coca leaves and cola crates.
We wait upon the tables where you dine
Serving in positions where the privileged dine.
And learn from you not to accept the little that we're given
Learning not to settle for meager offerings, but to seize opportunities.
To take the piece of silver where we can
Taking whatever small gains are available.
Now clutching at these papers in another office line
Holding onto documents in bureaucratic processes.
We're staring from the darkness up at windows filled with light
Observing the world from darkness, gazing at well-lit windows.
And every day you try to build a higher wall
Despite challenges, there is a persistent effort to build barriers.
In my town we used to pray to idols sent from far away
Recalling a time when idols were worshipped in the narrator's town.
From out beyond the dusty days, we heard your voices call
Hearing distant voices calling from beyond the past.
And in your town the streets are cleaned
Contrasting a clean, ordered town with discussions of peace and dreams with the reinforcement of barriers.
The order stands, the sirens scream
Mentioning order, sirens, and the fortification of walls.
You talk of peace, vacation dreams - and reinforce the wall
Talking about peace and dreams while strengthening barriers.
Now in the queues at immigration, in the border zone
Describing the challenges in immigration queues and the border area.
We are your bastard children, all coming home
Claiming a connection as the 'bastard children' returning home.
And every day you try to build a higher wall
Despite efforts, there is an ongoing attempt to build higher barriers.
Every day you try to build a higher wall
Repeated emphasis on the continuous endeavor to build higher walls.
But your money cannot stop us
Asserting that wealth cannot prevent progress.
And you violence cannot stop us
Asserting that violence cannot impede progress.
No you will never stop us with your higher wall
Defiant declaration that higher walls will never stop progress.
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