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 U.N.C.L.E. 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