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