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Goodbye to Berlin

from all this you shall have by The Spreewells

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Tip of the cap to Christopher Isherwood

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Goodbye to Berlin

Don't cry Karolin
I know I'll never see you again
Just look straight forward, not one more word
It'll happen soon enough my friend
Now would be the time for me to kiss you
And bring up all the crazy things we've done
Take too long to list them, but god I'll miss them
Back tomorrow at square one

And you can write your name on a wall
And defy the painters and the wrecking ball
But the girl on the chair in the corner
Won't be around the next time you call

Die leute kann nicht verstehen
Do you understand what I'm saying?
We've been intimate for so long
And on and on in English I'm still praying
I wanna go back
I wanna go back
I wanna go back, back, back
To the boat on the Spree as the evening fades to black

And you can write your name on a wall
And defy the painters and the wrecking ball
But the girl on the chair in the corner
Won't be around the next time you call
She'll disappear just exactly like she'd never even been there at all

And so its back into the sunshine
Where you clean out your lungs and your mind
Change lanes on the highway
In all the same places
Just exactly like you've always done

Don't deny, sweet baby, you'll miss me
After all the mischief that we made
Could never list it all, feel like I pissed it all
Away, now that it all begins to fade
Goodbye to Berlin
I'll probably never see you again
It could be a long long time, hope that you won't mind
The way it always ends - The way the story ends

[Lyrics copyright Richard Wittman 2018]

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from all this you shall have, released October 26, 2018
Richard Wittman: vocals, rhythm guitar
Jeff Gross: lead guitar
Mike Ball: bass; backing vocals; coughing
Milo Todesco: drums

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The Spreewells Los Angeles, California

The Spreewells make angular energetic music about the modern world. Their name evokes the savage beauty of a certain 1990s NBA star and the noble river that flows through a delicious foreign city. We are: Richard Wittman (voice, rhythm guitar), Jeff Gross (lead guitar; sometimes bass), & Mike Ball (bass; sometimes lead guitar). Drums were played by Milo Todesco and, on Marginalia, by Joel Joseph. ... more

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