Berlin - Udo Lindenberg

My father lived in Germany before the war in 1933

He was a violinist in Berlin’s most popular cabaret

«You watched the tide turn dirty brown

weren’t you afraid you were gonna drown

in your orchestrapit

while sailorgirls sang through the night

those silly lovesongs in the limelight

how could you stand it?»

Bert Brecht already left the land

from cabarets so many had been banned

the first had been killed by the crowd

you couldn’t hear the music was too loud

you should have sold your violin

or traded it in for a gun

rather than fiddling the refrain

doing cocaine and charming ev’ryone

You should have killed Hitler

you know you would have been right

why didn’t you fight?

You should have killed Hitler

you didn’t see behind the curtain

you didn’t try to stop that show

was it so nice your Third-Reich-paradise

where the sailorgirls sang: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

tralala, wunderbar

no panic on the Titanic

you should have sold your violin

or traded it in for a gun

rather than fiddling the refrain

doing cocaine and charming ev’ryone

You should have killed Hitler

you know you would have been right

why didn’t you fight?

You should have killed Hitler

hey dad, you didn’t see behind the curtain

you didn’t try to stop that show

was it so nice your Third-Reich-paradise

where the sailorgirls sang:

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

tralala, wunderbar

no panic on the Titanic

feel alright — what a night

no panic on the Titanic

more champagne — more cocaine

no panic on the Titanic

what a night — out of sight

no panic on the Titanic

tralala, wunderbar

no panic…