The stories behind Tear Down Our Own Walls

• Inside "Tear Down Our Own Walls": A Faster, Rawer Second Take — The second take of "Tear Down Our Own Walls" speeds the tempo up and pushes the bridge toward a frantic peak.
• Tear Down Our Own Walls: The Silence Between Two Teams on the Same Machine — A three-chord punk chant about the gap that opens up when two departments work the same equipment and never actually talk to each other.

Lyrics

Same four walls, same one team

Talking past each other, that's

obscene

Hey,

imagine over here, biomed over there

One patient's lying and nobody's aware

The call comes in, the room goes cold

Whose job is this?

Nobody's told Tear down our own walls

Before the walls tear down the halls

Tear down our own walls

One team, one call, that's all

Not one department's fault, not one team's crime

It's the silence sitting on the line

Two teams working the same machine

Never talked, never seen

Tear down our own walls, before the walls

Tear down the walls, tear down our own walls

One team, one call, that's all

Stop guarding your little door

Nobody wins that kind of war

Say the thing, say it first, silence is always

worse

Tear down our own walls, before the walls

Tear down the halls, tear down our own walls

One team, one call,

that's all

Save four walls,

one team, one call

Oh, oh,