I Tried and Failed and Cleaned Up Afterwards, So It’s Your Turn Now…

I’m building a wall all around brick by brick

It’s fifty miles high, a hundred miles thick

When I’m done I’ll lie down cause it’s making me sick

All these liars who lied, meanwhile outside

 

All the people we knew were all killing each other

Never a time when they loved one another

It’s not a surprise every son every brother

Is marching to war with both hands on the trigger

 

They’re free

That’s what god told our generals last week

Take those sinners and make them believe

And if they resist make them bleed

 

All the people we hate lie face down in the mud

They’re begging for water and choking on blood

And the rain it pours down like the lord’s holy flood

By the end of the day it will wash them away

 

And when we get home we will rinse our hands clean

Bathe in crude oil and toast gasoline

Now the rich will get richer tanned fat and mean

And we’ll all cruise around in our pleasure machines

 

Cause we’re free

That’s what god told our generals last week

Take those sinners and make them believe

And if they refuse make them bleed

 

I’m building a wall all around brick by brick

It’s fifty miles high, a hundred miles thick

And I’ll leave it behind, Cause if I have to pick

Then I choose to let go all these things that I know

 

I won’t say my goodbye’s, I don’t send my regards

I’ll slip out in the night through the bullets and guards

And year after year other wars will rage on

And the bombs will be falling long after I’m gone

 

Cause they’re free

That’s what god told his generals last week

Take those pagans and make them believe

When they refuse make them bleed