Oh Berlin Songtext / Lyric

Hasse, hasse, hasse, hasse



White snow turning to slush

A festival of brown in the city of my crush

If you walk around, you can step inside

Köthner Straße achtunddreißig



Oh Berlin

Who could think they would find you by just looking

Oh Berlin

How many of us hide in you

Oh Berlin

To think I could know you by your name



To stare and not be stared

To look and not be seen

To feel new feelings

Rather than understand where you've just been

Fame, huh






Oh Berlin

Who could they would find you by just looking

Oh Berlin

When you flap your angel wings

Oh Berlin

To think that I could know you by your name



Chasing the ghosts of our heroes

Lou Reed, David Bowie, Iggy, Wim Wenders, Rilke

To change location rather than change yourself

To ask for directions rather than ask for help

To remain always a true friend



Oh Berlin

Who could think they would find you by just looking

Oh Berlin

When you flap your angel wings

Oh Berlin

To think that I could know you by your name



Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders

And even if one to suddenly take me to its heart

I would vanish into its stronger existence

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror

That we are still able to bear and we revere it so

Because it calmly disdains to destroy us

Every angel is terror



Every angel is terror

Oh Berlin

Every angel is terror

Every angel is terror

Who would think they could find you by just looking

Every angel is terror

Every angel is terror

Oh Berlin

How many of us hide in you

Oh Berlin

To think that I could know you by a single name