Walls Come Tumbling Down

Album: Our Favourite Shop (1985)
Charted: 6
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  • You don't have to take this crap
    You don't have to sit back and relax
    You can actually try changing it
    I know we've always been taught to rely

    Upon those in authority
    But you never know until you try
    How things just might be
    If we came together so strongly

    Are you gonna try to make this work
    Or spend your days down in the dirt
    You see things can change
    Yes and walls can come tumbling down

    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling down
    Yes they do, yes they do, yes they do, yes they do, hey)

    The competition is a color TV
    We're on still pause with the video machine
    That keep you slave to the H.P.

    Until the unity is threatened by
    Those who have and who have not
    Those who are with and those who are without
    And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot
    Until you don't know where you are

    Are you gonna get to realize
    The class war's real and not mythologized
    And like Jericho, you see walls can come tumbling down

    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling
    (Down) You'll be to week to fight it
    (Down) oh unless we're united
    (Down) oh will you deny it?
    Ooh

    Are you gonna be threatened by
    The public enemies No. 10
    Those who play the power game
    They take the profits, you take the blame
    When they tell you there's no rise in pay

    Are you gonna try and make this work
    Or spend your days down in the dirt
    You see things can change
    Walls can come tumbling down

    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling down
    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling down
    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling down
    Governments crack and systems fall
    'Cause unity is powerful
    Lights go out, walls come tumbling down Writer/s: PAUL JOHN WELLER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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