August Kann - The Law is the Law Lyrics

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 that's not his home

You say we don't have the 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
It won't look so bad if we do it together

Where would you go in a 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 you knew no one, for how long would your heart still beat?
Where every day is a fight, and every night is defeat

You say we don't have the 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
It won't look so bad 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
No please don't do that, don't send him out, the boy is just eight

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