We’re building a wall on the edge of town
From the time the whistle blows until the sun goes down
It keeps us out of trouble, It keeps our bodies sound
It keep the heretics and heathens from coming around.

The church of the sanctimonious and divine
Gives us bread and pays for our time
But for every dollar dues are a dime
And they’ll take every penny if we step out of line.

He without sin cast the first stone
You’re all a bunch of liars or I’m standing all alone
You can fight your righteous battles near and afar
But you can’t force change and you can’t win a war

We've got bookend traps on the Appian path
If you are not like us you will feel our wrath
If you walk within these walls be sure to carry your staff
There are a million crooked fingers pointing every stumble out

He without sin cast the first stone
You’re all a bunch of liars or I’m standing all alone
You can fight your righteous battles near and afar
But you can’t force change and you can’t win a war

We lost 10,000 men at Judas’ Ford
And 100,000 more in the denominational war
We change you or destroy you steal your children rob your stores
And we all weep and wonder what we’re really fighting for.

We tortured all the druggies burned their art and their guitars
Sent philosophers to sea with just their maps to the stars
Adulterers and sodomites castrated in their yards
And I can’t decide who to admire, who to abhor

He without sin cast the first stone
You’re all a bunch of liars or I’m standing all alone
You can fight your bloody battles near and afar
But you can’t force change and you can’t win a war

So we’re building this wall on the edge of town
Those of us not rotting in the ground
And we can’t be to hasty to keep us safe and sound
So all third offense truants will hereby be drowned

As judgment day morning shirks its damp gray shawl
All of us truants marched up to the wall
We stare at our lives work in awe
And declare that it's time for the wall to fall

But he without sin cast the first stone
You’re all a bunch of liars or I’m standing all alone
You can fight your righteous battles near and afar
But you can’t force change and you can’t win a war