Before the Wall - Kyle Craft

If the wall it goes up and the country comes down

And it’s too tall to get in too late to get out

And the beaches have barbed wire across every shore

Would you lay down your gun then you won’t need it no more

If the wall it goes up would the thing ever fall

Will it stand there forever long after we’re gone

As a tombstone for freedom in a world that went wrong

As a remind of just how far we haven’t come

If the wall it goes up will the temperature drop

Will the oil rigs that litter this land get pulled up

Will we find some wild new way to save where we’re at

Would you do it?

No, I doubt it where’s the money in that?'

If the wall it goes up and you’re stuck here inside

And caught with skin color some lawmen don’t like

Will they beat you with the same bars they throw you behind

If it was you would you resist, give in, or just hide?

If the wall it goes up and there’s no need to leave

Could I get all I want from the number on the screen?

If I dial 1−800 will you bring it to me

Straight to my couch the American dream

If the wall it goes up and your Jesus comes back

And he knocks on the door will you stand to attack

If he don’t have his papers and he don’t have much cash

Would you take him in, jail him, or just send him back?

If the wall it gets built will I get rich like you?

Can I buy me a fake wife and a ghostwriter too?

And a Rolls Royce to drive down each broke avenue

Smiling fat on my high horse through a ghetto so gloom

If the wall it goes up around the idiot king

And a new Joan of Arc rises against his name

Will you stand there beside her, burn her at the stake

Or glance at it there on the news the next day?

If the wall it gets built like the walls built before

Will we be forced to take sides in a new civil war?

Where it’s East vs West vs South vs North

Versus people with money versus people so poor

If the wall it goes up do you think it could stop

The bombs coming in from countries you pissed off

With your big mouth blowing up like the 4th of July

Shut it Donald, shut it please man we don’t want to die

But, if the wall it stays down and the people stay free

And it’s not quite as bad as you said it would be

What if I let you be you and you let me be me

It’s a song before the wall for all us to sing

It’s a song before the wall for all us to sing