The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become / The further you take my rights away, the faster I will run / You can deny me, you can decide, to turn your face away / No matter 'cause there's, something inside so strong / I know that I can make it, though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
Upon its release, protests against apartheid laws in South Africa were escalating. Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was still in jail. He'd been imprisoned since 1962. He was finally released in 1990 and became the first democratically elected President of the country in 1992.
Siffre was wary of press interviews but also did not go to lengths to hide the fact he was gay. As noted by the Guardian in a 2022 profile, even back in the 1970s, Siffre's lyrics were not clearly aimed at the opposite sex.
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