This song was written by Janine Stoll in Germany in a small motel in the medieval walled town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Here, she lamented about her troubled relationship, over a giant bottle of pink champagne and episodes of Married with Children with German overdubs - and voila! Berlin was born.
lyrics
BERLIN
Berlin; big metal barge floating in blue
Stuck to the bottom of my shoe
And the world came flooding through
Quiet; expensive room and cheep champagne
Double mattress, single frame
You’re on the Isle of Saskatoon
* Throw your possessions over board
If you don’t do it now we’ll never make it to shore
We’ll sink down to the bottom of it all
Grace; sauntered in to watch you dance
Held your breath and held your stance
Somehow you set me to my knees
Do we ever really change?
Or do we just put it on for our family
So they won’t disappointed be
Disappointing me
* Throw your possessions over board
If you don’t do it now we’ll never make it to shore
I am brave enough to fight for you
But I won’t if that’s what you expect me to do
I am brave enough to fight for all of you
* Chorus
To the bottom
credits
from Award Winning Album,
track released May 17, 2011
Janine Stoll - songwriter, backing voice, guitar
Paul - arranger, lead voice, guitar
Brian Lahaie - arranger, drums
Liam Smith - arranger, bass, backing voice
Rob Sills - accordion, backing voice
Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
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