Tearing Down The Walls

verse 1 D 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 Bm F#m world I find so incomplete, where every chess piece that I meet G A will set the record on repeat and matter not at all. D G D G So, save the fables I've been told, I'm headed for the open road, D A D 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 G a woman off her feet. She may just fall flat on her face Bm all painted white, not quite alright. F#m There's more than life than that one night G A when Cindarella left you at the ball. D G So, here's a lesson in confession, D G maybe I just need attention. D A D 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 Bm F#m He said the glass may be half empty and these days i'm always thirsty. G A Oxygen's a taste I can't recall. D G D G 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. Bm F#m She turned to me while i played dumb and kissed me with a poison tongue. G A She melted as my innocence dissolved. D G D G I'm sorry, but I've got to go. The thrill of young loves getting old. D A D 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 Bm F#m crimes against humanity. They begged for me to set them free. G A I handed them a guillotine that whistles when it falls. D G I thanked them with my phony eyes. D G I bluffed my hands and said goodbye D A D and headed where they're tearing down the walls. Verse 6 D 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. Bm F#m and then of course the sobbing nothing, manifesting into something. G A Thus destroying everything that could have been resolved. D G The seasons changed, the wind got colder. D G But I said, to starting over. D A D Than I said, to tearing down the walls. Coda D G So if you want to see some progress, D G kindly disreguard your logic. D A D Take me where they're tearing down the walls. G A D Take me where they're tearing down the walls.