When I built these walls with bricks and stones

I built them all around

I built these walls a long time ago

She ain't gonna take 'em down

No, she ain't gonna break 'em down

I built these walls with my two hands

I laid every single part

And behind these walls a coward stands

An eagle and a broken heart

An eagle and a broken heart.

Oh-oh-oh-oh, she comes around

See if I don't get lost

I won't get found

Oh-oh-oh, and turn it 'round

See if I don't go up

I won't come down

I won't come down.

When I built these walls around my chest

I built them thick and strong

Oh, and she can try her very best

But they've been here for too long

For long ago there was a girl

That stood there where she stands

But she reached right in into my heart

And broke it in her hands

Oh, she broke it in her hands.

Oh-oh-oh-oh, and I suppose

If there's no rain clouds

Nothing grows

Oh-oh-oh, but this I know

If I don't get high

I won't get low

Oh-oh-oh, and I find her strange

She wants to climb up

But she could fall

Oh-oh-oh, she said that "I don't change"

And I live and die

Behind these walls

Behind these walls

Behind these walls.