Lyric discussion by slow pulse boy 

Cover art for Echo Police lyrics by Legendary Pink Dots, The

This is quite paranoid and it’s hard to guess what it means. But given the fact that the entire Asylum album is supposed to be kind of a concept album about insanity, the Echo Police can be a metaphor of a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst who tries to “infiltrate” into a patient’s mind, but fails – the Echo Police just don’t know how... But it can be something completely different. Anyway, it’s my favourite song on Asylum and the best way to open the album.