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Bring down the borders, baby,
bring them down.
Stop pretending skin changes
on either side
of an
imaginary line.
Dude, it's just a made up name
for a made up place.
It separates us; conforms us; destroys us.
We pretend some are in and some are out.
This piece of the puzzle is all ours!
We've stuck a piece of fabric on a pole;
on that fabric we've put a symbol.
A symbol that only holds relevance
if we all pretend it does.
Bring down the borders, baby,
bring them down.
It's time, isn't it yet?
Isn't it really time to
put away illusionary arrogance.
To do as Jesus said and love one another.
"All you need is love" someone famous sang
not so long ago.
We begin to not be men
when we assume differences
exist from other men.
We're all just trying to get by.
Trying to live as best we can.
Working at jobs we hate
to make a little money.
Pay-cheque to pay-cheque, day by day.
We may wear different coloured pants,
but we all piss the same way.
Bring down the borders, baby,
bring them down.
Some of us on the planet hoard almost
all of the supplies.
Bitch and moan when the rest want to share
in the spoils.
Talk about how foreign they are.
How different.
How wrong in thought.
Surely only our piece of the planet
is the most civilized zoo!
Justify any amount of violence
because the men on the
other side of the line
are not us.
Stop it.
Grow the fuck up.
Wake up people.
Do you really think hating everybody
is pushing us ahead?
Bring down the borders, baby,
bring them down.