The mascaraed blond the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, dressed in a daze Black crackles, cold water runs As she touches the walls of her maze
The shadows of men she has known her day She's held half the in her arms so they say But she wakes up without them with a in her heart And she puts on her clothes, lives her life bars
Mascaraed blond from the bar Sighs at the skylight, gets in the haze Black leather crackles and cold runs As she touches the walls of her memory
Someone got in no man's land Dancing in the spotlight to the of clapping hands Nobody knows whose he was on a risk that you take in no man's land
Nobody what made him decide To run for freedom and to certain When they turn off the and his fingers uncurl clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl
Come in your checkpoints on your lonely roads Come in your ditches in your silent fields Where intensified light a rifle sight Makes the darkness day and the day too bright, too
We up without you We wake up you We wake up you
We up without you With a hole in our a hole in our hearts
You mad dog shaven head, bottle boy In martens and khaki drunk on You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and
The butcher, the baker, the munitions The over achiever, the breaker The free-base instructor, the conductor The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the
The black mailer, the quick an the dead The spotlight dancer, the and the dead The quick and the dead, the quick and the
We wake up you Yeah, we up without you a hole in our hearts
The blond from the Berliner bar at twilight, gets dressed in a daze