All in all you're just another brick in the wall

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.