Görlitzer Park

Die Ruinen vom Görlitzer Park

Were cold as a stone in the ground

Aber Steine sind eben so stark

As the rubble hid under the mound

& your hair was as red as the glow

Of the fire that fell from the sky

& the ruins are covered with snow

Just as white as the white of your eye

& the trains of Berlin

They run her und hin

Through tunnels below in the dark

But the station is gone

So I'll wait for you on

The ruins of Görlitzer Park

In the garden of frozen desire

On the derelict couch we sat down

Wie die Stadt hier wir brauchten ein Feuer

Um uns aufzuwecken vom Traum

Und du mit den blutigen Haaren

Ich seh' deine Augen sind zu

So I'll be the Wilhelmine Baron

& you can be the ewiger Jew

& the trains of Berlin

They run her und hin

Through tunnels below in the dark

But the station is gone

So I'll wait for you on

The ruins of Görlitzer Park

From the ivy at Grünewald station

To the Treptower Soviet blade

You built your triumphant narration

Out of stones from the Mendelssohn grave

Where the sun is as gold as the names on the ground

& the walls grow up over the trees

& the tower antenna is haunting the town

& the past is a quiet disease

Where the air is filled up with sparrows

When once it was clouded with crows

& the Sleepwalker shot his last arrow

Then he buried himself with his bow

Oh my lover, my murderer's daughter

Accomplice to all of my sins

Our city of love & of slaughter

Wird immer noch heißen Berlin. . . .

& the trains of Berlin

They run her und hin

Through tunnels below in the dark

But the station is gone

So I'll wait for you on

The ruins of Görlitzer Park