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


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    why is there no comments! :o

    snotface2on October 27, 2007   Link
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    is a good song to make you think of give up of everything

    annazoffon November 29, 2007   Link
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    This song is an anthem for social-anarchy.

    Neonsolidon June 22, 2008   Link
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    This great song was the song that made me aware of that amazing band that Style Council was. They mad a string of awesome songs, but this remains one of my favorite.

    It makes you want to scream for social justice... It makes you want to kick some ass... Instead, government will bail out private banks (whose lousy managers who lead them to bankruptcy make unbelievable incomes) with the taxpayers' money...

    Will walls ever come tumbling down?

    BlueMeanieon October 20, 2008   Link
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    Paul was talking about class and and the power elite, but to be honest it reminds me of the Berlin Wall more than anything.

    delia17601on November 13, 2017   Link
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    He was trying to motivate people to vote and at the same time remove Thatchers government

    mrgrumbleon August 27, 2019   Link
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    I have a hard time buying into Weller's Socialist jive; but this a fantastic song and one of my absolute favorites by the SC. I recognize Weller as being a product of his environment and the times where everyone wanted to stand up to Thatcher so he gets a pass.

    BosRobon July 31, 2020   Link

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