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Berlin
( Telefunken 1981 - bisher nur in den USA, England und Spanien als
Maxi-Single erschienen)
My father lived in Germany
Before the war in 1933
He was a violinist in Berlin's most popular cabaret
You watched the tide turn dirty brown
Weren't you afraid you were gonna drown
In your orchestra pit ?
While sailor girls sang through the night
Those silly love songs in the lime light - how could you stand it ? Bert
Brecht already left the land
From cabarets so many had been banned
The first had been killed by the crowd
You couldn't hear, the music was too loud
You should have sold your violin
Or traded it in for a gun
Rather than fiddlin' the refrain
Doin' cocain and charmin' ev'ryone
Father, you should have killed Hitler
You know you would have been right
Why didn't you fight
You should have killed Hitler
You didn't see behind the curtain
You didn't try to stop that show
Was it so nice - your Third Reich paradise
Where the sailor girls sang:
Deutschland - Deutschland über alles
Tralala - wunderbar - no panic on the Titanic
More cocain - more champagne - no panic on the Titanic
What a night - out of sight - no panic on the Titanic
Tralala - wunderbar - no panic on the Titanic
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