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November 9, 2009 · Political Songs

20th Anniversary of Berlin Wall Fall

It was the Fall of 1989 and there were increasing demonstrations at the Berlin Wall. In the second week of November it started coming down. At the same time a friend was doing a documentary about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC. The contrast got me to thinking about walls. Good walls and bad walls, walls that hold us and walls that divide us int two… well watch the video. Lyrics are below. Please share this with as many people as you can. Thanks! – Mark

Walls   | Song# 143  |  11/22/1989

There are good walls and bad walls
Walls that hold us and walls that divide us in two
There are walls that shatter our grand illusions
And walls that obstruct the view
There are walls as old as Gilgamesh
And there are walls with fresh new paint
There are walls that stretch a thousand miles
And walls that can make a grown man faint….

Refrain:
There’s a wall in Washington filled with names
Of loved ones who have gone
And there’s a wall in East Berlin, crumbling now
May we dance together on its remains

There’s a silence bigger than a prairie sky
In a darkness cut with stars
There’s a child singing her own sweet tune
As she learns to question why

Refrain:

There are dreams we’ve lived and dreams we’ve lost
And hope that refuses to die
And around the world the Watchman’s fires
Send sparks dazzling into the sky

Refrain:

And as the new year gathers nigh
We rise to sing Auld Lang Syne
Lest old acquaintance be forgot
Let’s sing it out one more time

Copyright 1989-2009 by Mark Shepard all rights reserved
Permission to reprint in full with no changes granted with this info intact

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