Pet Shop Boys - Building a Wall lyrics

[Pet Shop Boys - Building a Wall lyrics]

Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!

I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
Back then on a bomb-site we
Were spies among the ruins
Such precocious barbarians
On TV we saw cold war

Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!

I'm leaving the world, it's all wrong
Not so much what men are doing
Much more what they're not
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in

Jesus and The Man From UNCLE
Caesar conquered Gaul
Scouting for centurions on a Roman wall
Through the woods, the trees
And further on the sea
We lived in the shadow of the war
Sand in the sandwiches wasps in the tea
It was a free country
(Who do you think you are, Captain Britain?)

I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm losing my head - well, why not?
More work for the undertaker
Means there's less for me

I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in

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