Runrig - Tear Down These Walls Lyrics

Tear down these walls
They keep raising for you

In the slipstream of luck and democracy
A victim of chance and geography
I reap and I sow the face of the earth
While big guns play games with the land of my birth

I walk these hills and I sail the seas
I've weathered the storms of history
Created to live, created to share
With the fish of the sea, the birds of the air

Tear down these walls
All men were born the same
You came here with nothing
But naked and a name
Oh, a name

Tear down these walls
They keep raising for you, hey, hey

I'm not too hot on Dukes or Earls or Graces
But I love respect and exalted places
Give me the people with sod on the knee

The higher the monkey climbs the more he reveals, oh, oh

Tear down these walls
All men were born the same
You came here with nothing
But naked and a name

Tear down these walls
All men were born the same
You came here with nothing
But naked and a name
Oh, a name

Tear down these walls
They keep raising for you
Oh, tear down these walls
They keep raising for you

Aw, tear down these walls
They keep raising for you

Tear down, tear down tear down