We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders

To keep out the needy man

Borders

To protect the greedy man

Borders

To keep all the living men dead

Dead, dead

Putting up the borders

That separate us from our fellow human beings

Emphasising difference instead of

Seeing the reflections that connect us

Connections that perfect us

Similarities of factors that affect us

In our everyday existence in this planet that we all live upon

Six billion expressions of the same essential one

The same essential force

That fundamental source of energy

That manifests itself in oh so many different forms

And it's all alright and all okay and that's just fine you know

But me I know that sometimes you have to draw the lines

Just to make sense of what you see

Of this reality

But understand the lines you draw only exist within your mind

It's the illusion of separation

Whoa

Separating nation from nation

The justification for social segregation

So deep in our delusions like a world of mental patients

Now it's time to tear down the asylum walls and let the patients out

It's time to let the refugees inside and share the wealth about

It's time that we all understand

We are just one land

Just one people people it's time to make a stand and say

No

I won't go

I won't go quietly no no no

I won't go quietly no no no

And if I do

Well you should know

You can't trap my soul

Trap my soul

Behind these borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders

Borders

To keep out the needy man

Borders

To protect the greedy man

Borders

To keep all the living men dead

Dead, dead

Putting up the borders

That elevate the status of those with resources

Never wonder from what plundering the source is

Misappropriated

Excavated from the living earth

Minerals like outlaw criminals flee from their place of birth

And make the journey northwards

Destined for our waters

Where they're welcomed in with open

Arms by the governments and corporates

Container ships slip over border points with ease

When they're carrying the commodities that service our greed

But meanwhile deep down in the belly of the ship

A secret human cargo waits

No food or water's passed a man's lips for the last eleven days

Kept alive by memories of families they've left behind

They ride the waves towards the promise of a better life

Some flee from tyranny

Some simply seek a way to lift themselves up

From the poverty that stalks them every day

Some run away from never ending civil war

For every single one of them this is their last resort and they say

No

I won't go

I won't go quietly no no no

I won't go quietly no no no

And if I do

Well you should know

You can't trap my soul

Trap my soul

Behind these borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside

We put up the borders that board us into our boxes

Oh can't you see now how the locksmith lies

Stoking up the national pride

While they're keeping all the wealth inside