Walls Come Tumbling Down
Breaking Chains: Unleashing Unity and Power in a Changing World
Lyrics
You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to accept this unpleasant situation.
You don't have to sit back and relax
You don't have to passively endure or be complacent.
You can actually try changing it
You can actively attempt to change the situation.
I know we've always been taught to rely
We've been taught to depend on those in power.
Upon those in authority -
Relying on authority figures.
But you never know until you try
You won't know unless you try to change things.
How things just might be -
The potential for change isn't apparent until attempted.
If we came together so strongly
If we unite strongly, significant changes can occur.
Are you gonna try to make this work
Are you willing to make an effort to improve this situation?
Or spend your days down in the dirt
Will you work towards improvement or remain in a difficult situation?
You see things can change -
Change is possible.
Yes an' walls can come tumbling down!
Emphasizes the potential for walls/barriers to break down.
Governments crack and systems fall
Political systems and structures can collapse.
'Cause unity is powerful -
Unity is a potent force for change.
Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!
When unity is achieved, significant changes happen.
The competition is a colour TV
Consumerism and materialism are distractions.
We're on still pause with the video machine
Society is paused, fixated on material possessions.
That keep you slave to the H.P.
People are enslaved to high-pressure (H.P.) consumerism.
Until the unity is threatened by
Unity is threatened by economic disparities.
Those who have and who have not -
The divide between the haves and have-nots.
Those who are with and those who are without
Emphasizes social and economic disparities.
And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot -
Jobs are dangled as incentives, like a donkey's carrot.
Until you don't know where you are
The confusion and disorientation caused by economic disparities.
Are you gonna realize
Realization of the existence of class warfare.
The class war's real and not mythologized
Class conflict is a tangible reality.
And like Jericho - You see walls can come tumbling down!
Comparing the potential for change to the fall of Jericho's walls.
Are you gonna be threatend by
Are you afraid of public opinion?
The public enemies No. 10 -
The powerful figures who manipulate public perception.
Those who play the power game
Those who play the political power game.
They take the profits - you take the blame -
They reap profits while others bear the consequences.
When they tell you there's no rise in pay
The disparity between profits and wages.
Are you gonna try an' make this work
Will you strive for improvement?
Or spend your days down in the dirt -
Or resign yourself to a difficult situation?
You see things can change -
Change is possible.
Yes an' walls can come tumbling down!
Reiterating the potential for significant change.
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