Berlin Lyrics - Marillion

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze 

Black leather crackles and cold water runs 

As she touches the walls of memory maze 

And the shadows of men she has known fill her day 

She's held half the world in her arms so they say 

But she wakes up without them with a hole in her heart 

And she puts on her clothes lives her life behind bars 

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Sighs at the skylight gets lost in the haze 

Black leather crackles and cold water runs 

As she touches the walls of her memory maze 

Someone got stranded in no man's land 

Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of clapping hands 

Nobody knows who's side he was on 

It's a risk that you take in no man's land 

Nobody knows what made him decide 

To run for freedom and to certain suicide 

When they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl 

He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl 

Come in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads 

Come in from your ditches in your silent fields 

Where intensified light from a rifle sight 

Makes the darkness day 

And the day too bright, 

And we wake up without you 

We wake up without you 

With a hole in our hearts 

You mad dog shaven head bottle-boy freaks 

In Martens and khaki, drunk on sake 

You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of dawn 

Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and drawn 

The butcher, the baker, the munitions maker 

The over-achiever, the armistice breaker 

The freebase instructor, the lightning conductor 

The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the tailor 

The black market mailer 

The quick and the dead 

The spotlight dancer 

The quick and the dead 

We wake up without you 

With a hole in our hearts 

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze