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Building A Wall Lyrics
[Repeat: x2]
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There's no where to defect to any more
[Repeat: x2]
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
[Repeat: x2]
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There's no where 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 Centurians
On a Roman wall
Through the woods, the trees
And further on, the sea
We lived in the shadow of the wall
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
[Repeat: x3]
I'm building a wall
A fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There's no where 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
We were spies among the ruins
Such precocious barbarians
On TV we saw
Cold War
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There's no where to defect to any more
It's all wrong
Not so much what men are doing
Much more what they’re not
A fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
Caesar conquered Gaul
Scouting for Centurians
On a Roman wall
And further on, the sea
We lived in the shadow of the wall
Sand in the sandwiches
Wasps in the tea
It was a free country
(who do you think you are, Captain Britain?)
A fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
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
Song Info
Submitted by
young_jables On Apr 06, 2009
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it must be about some prison built somewhere, a 'fine' wall, fine meaning the legal one, a clever twist of words