Pull The Damn Thing Down Lyrics - John Miles

Pull the damn thing down 

We're gonna build a highway 

Either side, we'll beautify 

With concrete reaching to the sky 

Pull the damn thing down 

Soon you won't remember 

As all the people turn their backs 

On cobbled stones and chimney stacks 

Pull the damn thing down 

They're gonna pull his house down 

They say that it's a slum 

No thought for peoples feelings 

'Cause progress has to come 

The home he's had for sixty years 

Is standing in their way 

So they'll find an institution 

Where he'll spend his lonely days 

Pull the damn thing down 

We're gonna build a highway 

Either side, we'll beautify 

With concrete reaching to the sky 

Pull the damn thing down 

Soon you won't remember 

As all the people turn their backs 

On cobbled stones and chimney stacks 

Pull the damn thing down 

He's back home for the first time 

In nearly twenty years 

With money and position 

And wife in mink and furs 

Places that he used to know 

Before he broke the ties 

Are all multi-storey car parks 

And he can't believe his eyes 

Pull the damn thing down 

We're gonna build a highway 

Either side, we'll beautify 

With concrete reaching to the sky 

Pull the damn thing down 

Soon you won't remember 

As all the people turn their backs 

On cobbled stones and chimney stacks 

Pull the damn thing down 

People don't want changes 

To keep up with the times 

Secure in their surroundings 

And leading quiet lives 

And then the man from London town 

Decides to rearrange 

And the place that they remember 

Will just never be the same 

Pull the damn thing down 

We're gonna build a highway 

Either side, we'll beautify 

With concrete reaching to the sky 

Pull the damn thing down 

Soon you won't remember 

As all the people turn their backs 

On cobbled stones and chimney stacks 

Pull the damn thing down