The mascaraed blond from the bar Rises at twilight, gets in a daze Black leather crackles, water runs As she touches the walls of her maze
The of men she has known fill her day She's held half the in her arms so they say But she wakes up without them a hole in her heart And she puts on her clothes, lives her life behind
Mascaraed blond the Berliner bar Sighs at the skylight, gets lost in the leather crackles and cold water runs As she touches the walls of her maze
Someone got in no man's land Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of hands Nobody whose side he was on It's a risk that you in no man's land
Nobody knows what made him To run for and to certain suicide When they turn off the guns and his uncurl He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin girl
in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads Come in from your ditches in your silent Where light from a rifle sight Makes the darkness day and the day too bright, too
We wake up you We wake up you We wake up you
We wake up you With a in our hearts With a hole in our
You mad dog shaven head, bottle boy In martens and khaki drunk on You stare at yourself in the cruel of dawn Terrified, sunken eyed, and drawn
The butcher, the baker, the maker The achiever, the armistice breaker The free-base instructor, the lightning 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 wake up you a hole in our hearts
The blond from the Berliner bar at twilight, gets dressed in a daze