Carving Up The World Again... a Wall And Not a Fence

The Russians, the Americans, the British and their friends

They're carving up the world again, it's getting kind of tense

A whole lot of posture and very little sense

It's no surprise they hide behind a wall and not a fence

The Irish and the English and the Scottish and the Welsh

A damp and misty history, they're keeping to themselves

I'll often talk antiquity and smoldering descent

Invisible division, behind a wall and not a fence

Trouble at the border, in the eleventh hour

Ditch and wire and palisade in the line of fire

Call up the cavalry and double up the guard

Plan for catastrophe inside the house of cards

In China they got worried so they built themselves a wall

They built it big and long and tall to keep away the horde

A hundred years of burning toil, and many lives expent

The steely grip of dynasty, behind a wall and not a fence

Trouble at the border, in the eleventh hour

Ditch and wire and palisade in the line of fire

Call up the cavalry and double up the guard

Plan for catastrophe inside the house of cards

Trouble at the border, in the eleventh hour

Ditch and wire and palisade in the line of fire

Call up the cavalry and double up the guard

Plan for catastrophe inside the house of cards

Emperor and sovereigns and kings and presidents

Dictators and ambassadors engage in our defense

A lifetime of good service, of selfless good intent

And guaranteed immunity, behind a wall and not a fence

Trouble at the border, in the eleventh hour

Ditch and wire and palisade in the line of fire

Call up the cavalry and double up the guard

Plan for catastrophe inside the house of cards

Trouble at the border, in the eleventh hour

Ditch and wire and palisade in the line of fire

Call up the cavalry and double up the guard

Plan for catastrophe inside the house of cards