If you walk south from San Diego along the ocean... far enough, you'll come to a series of steel panels erected to make a fence, each sequentially numbered, it is the border between the United States of America and Mexico. Unlike many borders this border doubles as a park, "Friendship Park". In the park a portion of the border fence is chainlink, families sit on either side and picnic together passing food and other items between the gaps in the chain link. Where the border fence runs into the ocean, it changes from the numbered steel panels to steel pilons driven into the ground. Children taunt the border patrol men standing guard on the United States side by throwing balls into the waves and running out after them, sometimes chasing them across the border onto the US beach.
This website tells more about the park and it's goal: http://friendshippark.org/html/History/
After spending an afternoon at Friendship Park I went home and wrote this song.
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