strasbourg

• the rakes şarkısı.
  
  i'll meet you in west germany
  october 1983
  i know that freedom was a lie
  and your husband was a spy
  you say that words are impotent
  but they can help us pay the rent
  i knew for sure there was nothing left
  except the vodka on your breath
  we meet in strasbourg
  in strasbourg
  dann sind wir helden
  we meet in strasbourg
  
  the courage that your father plucked
  from inside a cattle truck
  will help us fix the exit polls
  our children must have rock'n'roll
  surveillance cameras captured dawn
  breaking on the autobahn
  i knew for sure our chance was blown
  when rifles made us feel at home
  
  we meet in strasbourg
  in strasbourg
  dann sind wir helden
  we meet in strasbourg
  we meet in strasbourg
  in strasbourg
  dann sind wir helden
  we meet in strasbourg
  
  eins, zwei, drei, vier
  
  ideas can change the government
  but they never listen to our arguments
  on tv our friends smashed cement
  and pulled down the bastards monuments
  i went outside for a cigarette
  i could see things i had tried to forget
  the news showed us who we had left
  and i could smell the vodka on your breath