BERLIN (Live)

[TALKING] HELLO BERLIN! We wrote this song JUST FOR YOU! WE LOVE YOU, we want you to feed, now we want you to scream [crowd noise] Sing it with me! [crowd chanting] BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN [Intro, deep lo-fi hiss, distant train rumble] Cold air, bright signs I breathe in city thunder Berlin, don’t let me sink [Verse 1, female lead, tight, vivid] 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 [Pre-Chorus, lift, industrial clicks] 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 [Chorus, big hook, house trance lift] 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 [Verse 2, more drive, guitar shimmer enters] 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 [Pre-Chorus, tighter] 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 [Chorus, repeat, bigger] 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 [Bridge, half-time, emotional] 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 [guitar solo] [Final Chorus, full power, extra harmonies] 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 [Outro, lo-fi hiss, distant train fades] Concrete halo on my skin Berlin I’m in-between [Final drop] I’m in-between (Berlin) I’m in-between (Berlin) I’m in-between (Berlin) I’m in-between (Berlin)