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For Whom The Bell Tolls

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A city divided
The West and the East
Tear down the walls
Give them release
People are marching
They're out in the streets
Shouting for freedom
Shouting for peace

How many more children
Must die on the wall
They'll never be free
Until the bell tolls

The toll of the bell
Is Liberty's song
A city united
Is where they belong
A push of the button
And everything's gone
Total destruction
Comes with the bomb

How many more children
Must die on the wall
They'll never be free
Until the bell tolls

How many more children
Must die on the wall
They'll never be free

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seven On Jun 05, 2002

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by Kingofstilport

2y ago

This track is inspired by the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, based on the 1940 Ernest Hemingway novel. The song itself is about the Berlin Wall, which divided a city and a nation; A guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. This song is a call for the dismantling of the Wall and the reunification of Germany. It was finally brought down by the German public in 1989 after a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries Poland and Hungary, causing a chain reaction in East Germany. Primarily however, the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 set in motion a peaceful development during which the Iron Curtain largely broke, the rulers in the East came under pressure to cease their repressive policies, and the Berlin Wall fell.

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