Walls: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall & The Berlin Wall
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Walls: a song about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall
The song was inspired in 1989 as the Berlin wall was coming down, a friend of mine showed me footage of the Wall in Washington designed by Maya Lin. The images of the two walls were seared into my mind. I recorded the song but was unable to get it any airplay. Now, with the internet we have more options for expression than ever before. I went to www.flikr.com to find appropriate images to support the song's message. I hope you enjoy it.
Walls: Vietnam, Berlin
A song by Mark Shepard about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall
Some of the photos I found on flickr to put in the music video of this song
For links to all the photos in the video visit http://www.markshepard.com/walls.htm
The fall of the Berlin Wall - November 1989
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Walls
Song # 143 Composition Date: 11/22/1989
There are good walls and bad wallsWalls that hold us and walls that divide us in two
There are walls that shatter our grand illusions
And walls that obstruct the view
There are walls as old as Gilgamesh
And there are walls with fresh new paint
There are walls that stretch a thousand miles
And walls that can make a grown man faint
Refrain:
There's a wall in Washington filled with names
Of loved ones who have gone
And there's a wall in East Berlin, crumbling now
May we dance together on its remains
There's a silence bigger than a prairie sky
In a darkness cut with stars
There's a child singing her own sweet tune
As she learns to question why
Refrain:
There are dreams we've lived and dreams we've lost
And hope that refuses to die
And around the world the Watchman's fires
Send sparks dazzling into the sky
Refrain:
And as the new year gathers nigh
We rise to sing Auld Lang Syne
Lest old acquaintance be forgot
Let's sing it out one more time
Copyright 1989-2008 by Mark Shepard
All rights reserved
Permission to reprint "as is" granted with this info intact
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- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA website is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. Since it first went on line in 1996 it has evolved into something more. It is now also a place of healing for those affected by one of the most divisive wars in our nation's history.
- National Park Service Info
- Deliberately setting aside the controversies of the war, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors the men and women who served when their Nation called upon them. The designer, Maya Lin, felt that "the politics had eclipsed the veterans, their service and their lives." She kept the design elegantly simple to "allow everyone to respond and remember."
- Wikipedia on the Berlin Wall
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer 'inner German border' demarked the remainder of the East-West German border between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain.
- Learn more about Maya Lin
- Maya Lin is the architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington.
by MarkShepardSongs
Mark Shepard is a songwriter and NLP Practitioner who for 30 years has been writing songs inspired by...pretty much everything. Due to severe stage fr... (more)
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