A Lover In Berlin

[ti:A Lover In Berlin] [ar:Kari Bremnes] [al:A Lady of Sadness] [by:] [offset:0] [00:31.05]Once I had a lover in Berlin [00:33.59] [00:37.46]Said a frail old woman from a table next to mine [00:42.59] [00:44.59]His voice was like an ancient violin [00:47.71] [00:51.65]And he spoke to me that voice that voice [00:56.79] [00:58.86]I believe they call it falling for a man [01:02.86] [01:05.93]But this falling made me fly left me soaring to the sky [01:11.87] [01:13.31]There wasn any sense there was no plan [01:18.02] [01:20.90]But who would trade this passion for the safety of dry land [01:26.16] [01:28.87]Not I [01:36.27]Not he [01:42.54]And we knew we had to travel far away [01:46.73] [01:51.47]We know we had to disappear were no one else could find us [01:56.93]A sailing ship would take us from the bay [02:01.36] [02:03.68]It sails would fill with an offshore wind to blind us [02:10.08] [02:11.33]We gambled our security the future for the now [02:16.96] [02:18.40]Sailed off towards the storm safety east aside [02:23.83] [02:25.46]We gone beyond what reason would allow [02:28.27] [02:32.71]But who could tame the tidal wave and tell it where to go [02:39.40] [02:40.21]Not I [02:42.27] [02:47.27]Not You [02:47.78] [03:52.40]Reality then brought it to an end [03:56.34] [03:59.03]Said the frail old women shaking underneath her hat [04:05.72] [04:06.65]A decent set of values is no friend [04:10.08] [04:13.77]It reason now that blinds us please believe [04:19.02] [04:20.77]And passion is not willing to be steered [04:24.46] [04:28.64]Purity alone won fill a ship wide sails [04:35.08] [04:36.14]Life will sometimes bring what we most feared [04:39.64] [04:43.71]And who could ever say when to go or when to stay [04:48.05] [04:50.61]Not you [04:53.80]Not we