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 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