The Law is the Law

We did this seventy years ago, and now we do it again
You call it politics. You're throwing out my friend
You say you'll send him back home
to the country where his mother was born
But he's never been there, no thats not his home

You say we don't have enough space here
You say the law is the law
I say: Look into his face
I say: the law is just a law

aah lets send them out and build a wall
aah lets send them out before they fall
to the ground and stay here forever
Lets send them out, it'll all be better
won't be so hard if we do it together

Now, where would you go, in land where there's no peace
In a land where you don't speak the language
you just have the same color of skin
In a land where you knew no one
for how long would your heart still beat?
when every day is a fight, and every night is defeat

You say we don't have enough space
You say the law is the law
I say: Look into his face
I say: the law is just a law

aah lets send them out and build a wall
aah lets send them out before they fall
to the ground and stay here forever
Lets send them out, it'll all be better
Won't be so hard if we do it together

What are we if we send away a child
To a land he doesn't know, into the wild
I wouldn't even do it to a son of a man that I hate
nah please don't do it, don't send him out, the boy is just eight

You say we don't have enough space here
You say the law is the law
I say: Look into his face
I say: the law is just a law

aah lets send them out and build a wall
aah lets send them out before they fall
to the ground and stay here forever
Lets send them out, it'll all be better
Won't be so hard if we do it together

aah lets send them out and build a wall
aah lets send them out before they fall
to the ground and stay here forever
Lets send them out, it'll all be better
Won't be so hard if we do it together