"The Wall" is a song written by Kerry Livgren and Steve Walsh that was first released on Kansas' 1976 album Leftoverture.
Music professor Mitchell Morris interprets "The Wall" and another song from Leftoverture, "Carry On Wayward Son", as examples of "turning the Romantic artist into a prophetic visionary who can be heard in terms of evangelical Protestantism.
"[1] Daily Republican-Register critic Jim Marshall said in his contemporary review of Leftoverture that "The Wall" was "one of the best songs I have ever heard in my whole life.
"[3] St. Louis Post-Dispatch critic John S. Cullinane said that "The Wall" is "the prettiest and the simplest" song on side 1 of Leftoverture and said that Walsh's lead vocal is "flawless.
[7] Rivadavia also said of "The Wall" that it "exhibited the vast scope of the band's orchestral vision and melodic gifts like no other Kansas song before it.