Lyrics / The Wondering Traveler
BERLIN (In Between)
Cold air, bright signs I breathe in city thunder Berlin, don’t let me sink Concrete glow and a winter stare Neon leaks through the subway air Glass towers high with a silent pride Two blocks down where the shadows hide A suit walks fast with a clean cut grin A girl in boots with a tired chin I’m not above it, I’m not below I’m in the middle, and I move real slow Every heartbeat in a hard shell coat Every dream on a tightrope rope And the city hums like a drumline low Pull me in, pull me in, let it go Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round Cold like steel, but I love the sound I’m a middle traveler, wide awake Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight Warehouse prayers in the midnight light If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke Berlin, teach my heart to cope Graffiti saints on a broken wall History breathing in the echo hall Champagne laughs in a gallery room Cheap beer hope under streetlamp gloom I hear a choir in a bassline hit I feel my past in a subway drip And I keep walking, calm but raw Trying to name what I never saw I’m in the middle, I’m in between Not all dark, not all clean So I let the night do what it do Make a home out of passing through Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round Cold like steel, but I love the sound I’m a middle traveler, wide awake Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight Warehouse prayers in the midnight light If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke Berlin, teach my heart to cope I came for the noise I stayed for the truth For the way a hard city Still gives you proof That the broken can glow That the lost can move That a night this cold Can still feel new Berlin, concrete halo, spin me round Cold like steel, but I love the sound I’m a middle traveler, wide awake Love in my hands, loss in my suitcase Berlin, concrete halo, hold me tight Warehouse prayers in the midnight light If there’s a sign in the strobe and smoke Berlin, teach my heart to cope Concrete halo On my skin Berlin I’m in between I’m in between Berlin I’m in between Berlin I’m in between Berlin I’m in between Berlin