[Verse 1]
I've stacking up the years I spent trading punches with the enemy
Built myself a double thick stone tower of lies, higher than the eye could see
Trapped in my flesh & bone
Crying out to You Lord, I’m desperate
Love come rattle this cage and set me free
All of my fears, like Jericho walls,
Gotta come down, come down
All of my fears, like Jericho walls,
Gotta come down, come down
Oh Lord, my prison turns to ruin
When Your love moves in
All of my fears, like Jericho walls,
Gotta come down, come down
Come down
Truth was crashing through the pride and the blame
Cutting straight to the heart of me
Long before I ever called your name
You were fighting for my victory
Carved in Your flesh and bone
The wounds that have said my souls forgiven
Oh now I can feel the darkness trembling
Rebuild me from the ground up
All I wanna see is You
Terrify the lies with truth
Jericho
Song Meaning
Andrew Ripp borrows the most physical image in the Old Testament for a wall coming down and applies it entirely to something invisible in "Jericho" — "all of my fears, like Jericho walls, gotta come down, come down." The comparison isn't decorative; the song insists internal fear is exactly as real and exactly as breakable as ancient fortified stone.
"Built myself a double thick stone tower of lies, higher than the eye could see" names the fears as self-constructed rather than merely inherited, which makes the plea that follows — "love come rattle this cage and set me free" — a request to undo something the singer helped build, not just something done to him. "Long before I ever called Your name, You were fighting for my victory" reframes the timeline entirely, crediting the breakthrough to a battle that started before the prayer did.
"Rebuild me from the ground up" closes the song past demolition into reconstruction, refusing to let the walls' collapse be the final image — something new is meant to stand where they used to be.