Boys From Brazil

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Sharing a title with a book by Ira Levin, the song seemed to share similar themes although Jim later contradicted that: "It isn't about the book although that was the starting point. Rather than find a baseline like 'Death To The Neo-Nazis' (as did the book), we wanted to be ambiguous. It was just a point, a motivation. It's a game we play, and when it comes to lyrics I think we're too scared to commit ourselves. But that song was concerned with seeing, in Britain, that almost total Neo-Nazi romance, which is really dangerous. There are lines...

Sharing a title with a book by Ira Levin, the song seemed to share similar themes although Jim later contradicted that: "It isn't about the book although that was the starting point. Rather than find a baseline like 'Death To The Neo-Nazis' (as did the book), we wanted to be ambiguous. It was just a point, a motivation. It's a game we play, and when it comes to lyrics I think we're too scared to commit ourselves. But that song was concerned with seeing, in Britain, that almost total Neo-Nazi romance, which is really dangerous. There are lines in that, like 'Not just a boy that's crying wolf' and 'Someone else is screaming up at our door'. I was really pleased with them. It is a fascination with style." Despite wanting to be ambiguous, Jim later revealed he had the British neo-Nazis like the National Front in his sights when he wrote it.

The song was recorded using the working title of Chicago.

http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/songs/saf/bob1.htm