Start spreading the news I am leaving today
I wanna be a part of it, Berlin, Berlin
These back of our shoes are long and too stray
Right to the very heart of it, Berlin, Berlin
I wanna wake up in the city that doesn't sleep
Except Sundays, to find I'm king of the hill
Atop of the hill
My little term blues are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it in old Berlin
If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, Berlin, Berlin
It's like a handicap, you have to live with it
Someone asked directly from Cologne and asked for dinner
What are your thoughts of Berlin?
What do you think it would be like?
What does it represent to you?
I guess when you say Berlin to me, I think about the wall, you know, the separation of the city
Into the east and west after World War II
And I think about World War II, I mean, my associations basically with Berlin and Germany
Are as I think of these huge rallies, you know, in World War II
And then what happened afterwards
Growing up, there was a lot of fear in many ways about what was happening in Berlin
Because for the United States, it was an area where there was sort of a proxy war area
If you will, between Russia and the United States
My impression is I know that the city is very different now
And I know, well, the wall, of course, is gone
And there are only vestiges of it in the city
There's a lot of artwork and a lot of young people and a lot of what's going on
But I don't know much about the city
I still carry the impressions of when I was very young
The airlift and the west to Berlin
And all that, that was like, right around the time I was born, the time I was really, really young
There was a lot of, that was, that was all, you know, when people talk about Germany
If they didn't talk about World War II
Then they talked about what was going on in Berlin
As a, as a point of, a potential point to start on war
You know, just taking the fact that my grandmother who came to the United States
When she was probably three, neglected to say that
I mean, she always said that, no, no, no
You know, her older sister was born in Germany and she was actually born in the United States
So clearly there was a, you know, there was a real stigma attached to being Germans
I know that there were parts of her family who were still there in World War II
And died in the concentration camps
But she came with her sister and her parents
And maybe even grandparents
Germany, I think, was a very, very orderly place
And, you know, because I have spent time in other parts of Germany
Because very orderly, much more so than in the US
And incredibly more so than in Italy
So, in the end, I feel, after all, immediately
It seems that the city is a model for a Europe
Currently, in the face of change, especially due to the global crisis
And also because of the political social crisis
In the sense that, despite the crisis, it is a country
That is not only a model or a command for other countries
Surely it welcomes so much culture that, ultimately, in the countries of Europe
It comes to miss the use of all of Italy
And, previously, it could also be the end
An engine for the young, in the sense that it recalls everyone
Not only for the work, but above all
For the expectation, for the future
To create a new experience for the future
But for their own countries of Europe
And not to confront, according to the city, the avant-garde
And not to confront, as well, a side of the globalisation
And that makes a personal experience
Even the work of the city, to understand which direction to take the life of Europe
Because so many people go and return
Now, personally, what I feel, speaking on the return of Italian
It is a return to history, in the sense that the Italians went to Germany
After the war to find fortune
To return, for example, as a tourist to Berlin
It is like a contrast to the history of a feeling with the past
In the sense that so many nationalities went
And they remained, but there is also the fact that those who have returned
With great sacrifice and everything
Let's say, a system of difficulty and discrimination
They have found in Germany
But, in fact, history is certainly what we think of in Germany
It is a city devoid of entertainment
And it is human
And it is not only human
A city that, despite the progress
But it has its own history
This is what it is
I don't understand
And it is a city that certainly
Doesn't have to bring people
To lean on an almost cultural aspect
In the sense that the book must be its own
Berlin must also have the knowledge of other populations
There are people who have migrated to Germany
In the sense of seeing how a month is collected
And how it can give birth
To new conditions
In my opinion, it is not like in Italy
That maybe our family has lived
Still as a person in Vienna
Especially in the sense of a greater interaction
And seeing how this interaction is carried out
I mean, maybe it is expected to see
Also people from the Middle East
Italian and Italian people
Let's say that they are like
Very different from each other
But they will still be friends
In harmony with what is the traditional Germany
And they are all things that I expect
And that maybe in the rest of the world
There are more traditional rights
I mean, I would like to see
Tester, Sardinia, Kanziskin
Call them again
In Ciro, it would be a huge disappointment
And above all that in the sense that
The people I will meet
Businessmen, baristas
The problem that we had
Is our historical discrepancy
And then it is something that
I would be happy to see
For example, if the way of life
Was to remain as it is
In our body
I would like to say that
It must be appreciated
And then, another curiosity
That I would like to see
Is the people who live
In the Berlin division
As they have changed today
People from the Berlin West
Who are now in the Berlin West
As they have changed their way of life
As it was before
I would like to communicate
If possible with the people
To see how the country
Has changed over the years
And the people who are now in the Berlin West
As they have changed their way of life
As they have changed their way of life
As they have changed their way of life
When I think of Berlin
I think of the Berlin Wall
Because I remember the television pictures
And that coincided with
Students and the anger
In East Berlin coincided
With the timing of the protests
In the F1 West
And I think about the enormous
Resurgence, rebirth, renaissance
Of art in Germany
And in particular in Berlin
That came out of a period
Of suppression, conflict, divisiveness
This was a time of tremendous creativity
People were fury
And they didn't know what to do with their anger
Even though he's not from Berlin
I think was the most exciting
Artist to come out of that period
Was a fellow keeper
I think that his work is terribly sad
Some of it is just about devastation
But it's done with enormous energy
An enormous duty
And I think that's how I think about Berlin
I actually think about an amazing
Scenic thriving from the ashes
Sideways, unwise
Like some drunk in a mad night choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a fish on a hook
Like some knight in old fashioned book
I have saved all my feelings for thee
If I, if I have been unkind
I only will just let it go on by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
Like a babe still born
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out to me
But I swear by the song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
So if I, if I have been unkind
I hope you just let it go on by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
So like a bird on a wire
Like some drunk in a mad night choir
I have tried in my way to be free
