Building a Wall

Album: Yes (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song utilizes Cold War imagery alongside stories from Neil Tennant's childhood. Some bloggers have also interpreted this song as a dig at British immigration policies.
  • In the middle eight, Chris Lowe pops up and says "who do you think you are, Captain Britain?" This was first time Lowe's voice had been heard on a Pet Shop record since "I Believe In Ecstasy," the hidden track on their 1993 album Very. Lowe told Q magazine that his Pet Shop Boy partner Neil Tennant told him, "to say that. I'd never heard of him." Tennant then explained: "It was scripted by me 'cos I was the London editor of Captain Britain at Marvel Comics."

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