Stiff Little Fingers - The Night That The Wall Came Down lyrics

Maybe you remember, before the wall came down How we hared one another from the other side of town Now I'm an old man And an old man can see All that hate can leave you with It's just photographs and no permanent past And an ever growing rift Back then it was easy to blame the other guy You had it all so they built the wall and we were left to cry And a young man With a young man's haste Will challenge every law So he'll try to break out but there's never a doubt That he is bound to fall Then there's all the lies they tell you And the lies you tell yourself So you end up crying [Chorus:] The night that the wall came down The night that the wall came down The night that the bricks fell apart And the wall came tumbling down They said it would protect us, from evil from the west How you'd sacrifice everything in the pursuit of personal wealth But a mother With a mother's tear Sees her family torn apart There are some by her side others still trapped inside Only living in her heart So what use, the lies they tell you Or the lies you tell yourself So you end up shouting [Chorus] Oh, oh and don't let them tell you The future holds no hope Oh, oh, oh never let them beat you Look forward, take control [Verse 1 & M8 rpts]