Protection (prevention)

Detection (detention)

There's no where to defect to any more

[x2]



I'm building a wall

A fine wall

Not so much to keep you out

More to keep me in

[x2]



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 no where to defect to any more

[x2]



I'm leaving the world

It's all wrong

Not so much what many are doing

Much more what's within us



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 Angol (?)

Caesar conquered Gaul

Scouting for Centurians

On a Roman war



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



I'm building a wall

A fine wall

Not so much to keep you out

More to keep me in

[x3]