Who gets to cross?

[Intro: customs stamp, train whistle, cash register 🌍]

[The Market: Electro-Swing]
Let the money cross by midnight!
Let the cargo clear by dawn!
Opportunity needs open roads
To carry progress on!

[The Border: Martial Rock]
But towns are more than markets.
Laws are more than trade.
A nation needs the power
To decide how change is made.

[The Traveler: Folk]
My labor crosses in your products.
My dreams remain in line.
Your capital receives a welcome.
Why is movement not also mine?

[Chorus: Arena Rock]
What gets to cross?
What must remain?
The money finds a doorway.
The worker meets a chain.
Goods travel without memory.
Capital travels light.
But people bring their histories,
Their hunger and their rights.

[The Market]
Open trade makes plenty!
Competition lowers cost!

[The Worker]
But cheaper goods may hide
The jobs and bargaining we lost.

[The Traveler]
Migration builds new futures!

[The Border]
And communities need time!

[All]
Does freedom stop at property,
Or does it follow humankind?

[Genre Shift: Frantic Punk ⚡]
OPEN THE PORT!
GUARD THE GATE!
WELCOME HOPE!
CONTROL THE RATE!
WHO GETS RICH?
WHO PAYS THE COST?
WHO WRITES THE RULES
FOR WHAT MAY CROSS?

[Bridge: piano, voices soften]
A wall can guard a people.
A wall can cage them too.
An open road creates a chance
And burdens someone new.
No slogan holds the answer.
No market stands apart
From families, wages, sovereignty,
And every migrant heart.

[Final Chorus: Orchestra and choir 🕊️]
What gets to cross?
Who gets to choose?
Every freedom creates gains.
Every boundary makes us lose.
If goods and wealth move freely
While people wait outside,
Perhaps the honest question
Is whose freedom we provide.

[Outro: train departing]

[The Border]
Proceed with caution.

[The Traveler]
But proceed.