About This Track
The closing track of the Berlin album brings the journey full circle. "Berlin (East)" represents the resolution of the protagonist's urban odyssey, a reflection on transformation and the circular nature of city life.
This final chapter examines how experiences change us, and how returning to familiar places with new perspectives can reveal profound truths about growth and self-discovery.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
All the ways are the same, it seems —
Full of cigarettes and class A dreams.
The days into the nights, they blend,
Till Sunday afternoon, I'm in line again.
Sisyphus and Oedipus know nothing of
Stagnation or forbidden love.
We're all going nowhere, waiting on the scene —
Where anything goes in old Berlin.
[Chorus]
"Hello Berlin, goodbye Berlin,
Thank you for the ride, Berlin".
Say the endless stream of passers-by,
Come to find themselves, but just for a while.
"Hello Berlin, goodbye Berlin —
When I was lost, you fit me in.
But I'm homeward bound now,
Got to settle down now.
Hello Berlin, goodbye, goodbye Berlin".
[Verse 2]
Déjà vu — I've been here before,
With shoes clustered 'round an apartment door.
This stranger's tale, it ain't strange to me:
Came here for love, fell in love with the city.
"The rent's goin' up, but it's still so cheap,"
Say the Londoners, smoking on the mezzanine.
Every Saturday of every single week
Is another leaving party — till one day, you leave.
[Chorus]
"Hello Berlin, goodbye Berlin,
Thank you for the ride, Berlin".
Say the endless stream of passers-by,
Come to find themselves, but just for a while.
"Hello Berlin, goodbye Berlin —
When I was lost, you fit me in.
But I'm homeward bound now,
Got to settle down now.
Hello Berlin, goodbye, goodbye Berlin".
[Outro]
It used to be poor but sexy, young, free, and wild,
Drinking Sterni on the Feld 'neath the summer skies.
Now it's only yummy mummies with their yoga-baby tummies,
Avocado hipsters and motherfucking yuppies, singin':
"Hello Berlin, goodbye Berlin."
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