[TALKING]
HELLO BERLIN!
We wrote this song JUST FOR YOU!
WE LOVE YOU, we want you to feed,
now we want you to scream
[crowd noise]
Sing it with me!
[crowd chanting]
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
BERLIN
[Intro, deep lo-fi hiss, distant train rumble]
Cold air, bright signs
I breathe in city thunder
Berlin, don’t let me sink
[Verse 1, female lead, tight, vivid]
Concrete glow and a winter stare
Neon leaks through the subway air
Glass towers high with a silent pride
Two blocks down where the shadows hide
A suit walks fast with a clean-cut grin
A girl in boots with a tired chin
I’m not above it, I’m not below
I’m in the middle, and I move real slow
[Pre-Chorus, lift, industrial clicks]
Every heartbeat in a hard-shell coat
Every dream on a tightrope rope
And the city hums like a drumline low
(pull me in) (pull me in) let it go
[Chorus, big hook, house trance lift]
Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round
Cold like steel, but I love the sound
I’m a middle traveler, wide awake
Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase
Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight
Warehouse prayers in the midnight light
If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke
Berlin, teach my heart to cope
[Verse 2, more drive, guitar shimmer enters]
Graffiti saints on a broken wall
History breathing in the echo hall
Champagne laughs in a gallery room
Cheap beer hope under streetlamp gloom
I hear a choir in a bassline hit
I feel my past in a subway drip
And I keep walking, calm but raw
Trying to name what I never saw
[Pre-Chorus, tighter]
I’m in the middle, I’m in-between
Not all dark, not all clean
So I let the night do what it do
Make a home out of passing through
[Chorus, repeat, bigger]
Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round
Cold like steel, but I love the sound
I’m a middle traveler, wide awake
Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase
Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight
Warehouse prayers in the midnight light
If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke
Berlin, teach my heart to cope
[Bridge, half-time, emotional]
I came for the noise
I stayed for the truth
For the way a hard city
still gives you proof
That the broken can glow
That the lost can move
That a night this cold
can still feel new
[guitar solo]
[Final Chorus, full power, extra harmonies]
Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round
Cold like steel, but I love the sound
I’m a middle traveler, wide awake
Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase
Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight
Warehouse prayers in the midnight light
If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke
Berlin, teach my heart to cope
[Outro, lo-fi hiss, distant train fades]
Concrete halo
on my skin
Berlin
I’m in-between
[Final drop]
I’m in-between
(Berlin)
I’m in-between
(Berlin)
I’m in-between
(Berlin)
I’m in-between
(Berlin)