Abney Park – Building The Walls

One hundred years ago isn’t long

Would you be blamed for another’s wrong

Generations claiming retribution

While your poets & your prophets are yelling “execution”

1st chorus

Who’s building the walls now? (2x)

I never held you down

I never put you down

I never held you down

Let’s be brothers

Ten billion people all unique

You’ve only got one thing in common

The color of your cheeks

You put down your brothers who found a way to fit in

It’s survival of the fittest

But you say they’ve betrayed their own kin

1st chorus

I’ll never say you have no right

But the only cure today is not to fight

Hate will not stop hate, i know i’m right

But when you trust a man today whose skin is white

2nd chorus

Who’s putting the chains on now? (2x)

I never held you down

I never put you down

I never held you down

Let’s be brothers