The mascaraed blond the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, dressed in a daze leather crackles, cold water runs As she touches the walls of her memory
The shadows of men she has fill her day She's half the world 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 behind bars
Mascaraed blond from the bar at the skylight, gets lost in the haze Black leather crackles and cold water As she touches the walls of her maze
Someone got in no man's land Dancing in the spotlight to the of clapping hands Nobody whose side he was on a risk that you take in no man's land
Nobody knows made him decide To run for and to certain suicide they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party
Come in from your checkpoints on lonely roads Come in from ditches in your silent fields Where light from a rifle sight Makes the day and the day too bright, too bright
We up without you We up without you We up without you
We up without you With a hole in our With a hole in our
You mad dog shaven head, bottle boy In martens and drunk on sake You stare at in the cruel flush of dawn Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and
The butcher, the baker, the munitions The over achiever, the breaker The free-base instructor, the lightning The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the
The black market mailer, the an the dead The dancer, the quick and the dead The quick and the dead, the quick and the
We up without you Yeah, we up without you With a in our hearts
The blond from the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a