Song of the Day: 'Walls Come Tumbling Down' by the Style Council

This one's for Damian, who doesn't understand my fascination with the former Jam/Style Council leader. Does this help? He's singing "our song" here!

I need a T-shirt that says: "Paul Weller Made Me a Socialist" 

Walls Come Tumbling Down

The Style Council

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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