Tearing Down The Walls

	  		
verse 1 
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I heard a sound outside today, a thousand voices all the same 
     G 
that cried in vane but can't explain the reasons why they all complain. 
       D 
We live among the plastic people, population plain and simple, 
G 
turning with a curve, shutting out the windows of the 
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world I find so incomplete, where every chess piece that I meet 
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will set the record on repeat and matter not at all. 
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So, save the fables I've been told, I'm headed for the open road, 
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and going where they're tearing down the walls. 

verse 2 
D 
All along the wind was talking, passed aside a sobbing nothing, 
G 
with his heart taped on his sleeve. Says he has the things I need. 
D 
Bad disguise but good advice, he said think twice next time you swipe 
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a woman off her feet. She may just fall flat on her face 
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all painted white, not quite alright. 
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There's more than life than that one night 
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when Cindarella left you at the ball. 
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So, here's a lesson in confession, 
D            G 
maybe I just need attention. 
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Take me where they're tearing down the walls. 

verse 3 
D 
Where the armies can't surrender, writing up their final stanza, 
G 
sixth chief commander with a hidden agenda. 
       D 
In the backward image of a prince who rained on high and ignorance 
      G 
while pushing doomsday buttons making puppets out of husbands 
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He said the glass may be half empty and these days i'm always thirsty. 
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Oxygen's a taste I can't recall. 
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While dodging every sidewalk crack, I gave him my reflection back 
   D                      A 
to take him where they're tearing down the walls. 

verse 4 
D 
Far away where moonlight curls, there danced a ruby peasant girl 
    G 
who had a passive style, with a Mona Lisa smile. 
         D 
And that Sunday skirt she liked to wear that made the preacher stop and stare 
   G 
it sure confused her brother and her father never loved her. 
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She turned to me while i played dumb and kissed me with a poison tongue. 
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She melted as my innocence dissolved. 
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I'm sorry, but I've got to go. The thrill of young loves getting old. 
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You'll find out when we're tearing down the walls. 

Verse 5 
    D 
The nylon mats beneath the floor that led me to the castle door 
     G 
made up of thorns and briers where the wasted time expires 
     D 
in a thrown room taken from a dream, they executed kings and queens 
     G 
for changing all their minds and filling up the caskets with their 
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crimes against humanity. They begged for me to set them free. 
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I handed them a guillotine that whistles when it falls. 
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I thanked them with my phony eyes. 
  D                    G 
I bluffed my hands and said goodbye 
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and headed where they're tearing down the walls. 

Verse 6 
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When the hours meet the minutes, seconds til I finally finish, 
G 
traveling and tracing when I reached my destination. 
           D 
There were figures standing by the gate. I realized I'd arrived too late, 
     G 
they waited for me as I screamed. The prince, the peasant, king and queen. 
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and then of course the sobbing nothing, manifesting into something. 
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Thus destroying everything that could have been resolved. 
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The seasons changed, the wind got colder. 
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But I said, to starting over. 
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Than I said, to tearing down the walls. 

Coda 
   D              G 
So if you want to see some progress, 
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kindly disreguard your logic. 
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Take me where they're tearing down the walls. 
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Take me where they're tearing down the walls.