Before the Wall

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