Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Brian Higgins Xenomania
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
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
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Yes (2009)
- Yes: Further Listening 2008 – 2010 (2017)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- Closer to Heaven 3
- Footsteps
- Closer To Heaven / Left To My Own Devices
- Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Coconut 1 12" Mix) [Disco 2 Version]
- In His Imagination
- Sail Away