Why are we here? Lost in the city It's big and it's straight It's cold and it's pretty For two travelling birds Blown in from the east Drying off slowly but homesick to leave When did this change When did the coals burn From orange to grey From grey into cold earth Creating the floor down in the cellar Where she's scared as hell And I'm too tired to tell her That i'm scared as well That Berlin's not forever I was born as a stone Sold as a pillar Holding you up but not pulling you nearer Supporting your arms from down in the cellar Where I'm hungry as hell But I'll never tell her Cause she's hungry as well And we'd be starving together I hope that I'm wrong And that you will right me When I'm out in the rain When I'm covered in the lightning I knew this'd be hard And I knew it'd be frightening But it'd be ten times as hard Without you here beside me