Building a Wall

Written by：Chris Lowe/Neil Tennant

Protection prevention detection detention

There's nowhere to defect to anymore

Protection prevention detection detention

There's nowhere to defect to anymore

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 anymore

Protection prevention detection detention

There's nowhere to defect to anymore

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 wood 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

I'm building a wall

A fine wall

Not so much to keep you out

More to keep me in