LEARN LYRICS

East Berlin

'Unter den Linden'

People walk

Past flags and banners

Where Lenin and Marx

Still stand on a pedestal

And everyone works

Hammers and sickles

While in parade step

The guard gets changed

Forty years of socialism

A lot's been achieved in that time

But what's that promised land

If there are walls around it?

If you have to be scared and careful

With your opinion?

Ah, what's that promised land

Tell me, what's it worth?

When someone who deviates

Is declared insane?

And only the birds

Fly from East to West Berlin

Aren't called back

Nor shot down

Over the wall

Over the Iron Curtain

Because sometimes they want to be in the west

And sometimes in the east

Because sometimes they want to be in the west

And sometimes in the east

West Berlin: the 'Kurfürstendamm'

People walk past porn and peepshows

Where Mercedes and Cola

Still stand on a pedestal

And the neon signs

That glitter and lure

Come dance! Come eat!

Come booze! Come gamble!

That's forty years of freedom

A lot's been achieved in that time

But what's that freedom

Without a house, without a job?

So many Turks in 'Kreuzberg'

Who can barely get by

Sure, you can demonstrate

But with your back against the wall

And only if you've got money

Then freedom isn't pricey

And the birds fly from West to East Berlin

Aren't called back

Nor shot down

Over the wall

Over the Iron Curtain

Because sometimes they want to be in the east

And sometimes in the west

Because there's bread sometimes

By the 'Gedächtniskirche'

Sometimes on Alexanderplatz