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, yeah

Are you gonna try to make this work / Or spend your days down in the dirt / You see things can change / Yes, an’ walls came a-tumbling down / Governments crack and systems fall, ’cause unity is powerful / Lights go out, walls come tumbling down / Yes, they do…

The competition is a colour TV / We’re on “still pause” with the video machine / That keep you slaves to the H.P., yeah

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, not mythologized / And like Jericho / Yes, the walls came a-tumbling down / Governments crack and systems fall, ’cause unity is powerful / Lights go out, walls come tumbling down

Down / You’ll be too weak to fight it / Down / Oh, less united / Down / Oh, will you deny it? / Ooh…

Are you gonna be threatened by / The public enemy is Number 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 to make this work / Or spend your days down in the dirt / You see things can change / Walls came a-tumbling down / Governments crack and systems fall, ’cause unity is powerful / Lights go out, walls come tumbling down / Governments crack and systems fall, yes, they do, ’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 / Oh, lights go out, walls come tumbling down

[By Paul Weller © Polydor Records, 1985]