Tear Down The Walls

BEHIND THE SONG In early summer of 2016, we wrote a simple chant for a liturgy we were leading at Wild Goose Festival, as a prayer for the courage and faith to take down all the walls we put up in our personal lives and in our world. This little chant: “Tear down the walls, tear down the walls between us…” stayed with us and kept growing after the summer was over.  We wrote verses and a bridge, which ended up essentially becoming words of confession…an acknowledgment of our own part in all the wall-building that’s going on these days: “We bring the wood, the iron, the concrete, the fire. We build these walls every day. We carry the hurt, the fears, the shame, and the tears. Our beautiful barricade.” The Lyrics ChorusTear down the walls, tear down the wallsTear down the walls between us VerseThe clenched fist, the cordoned off heartThe border lines always keeping us apart The crossed arms, the closed up earsThe long high fence always keeping us in fear Chorus VerseDowncast eyes, t