In Babelsberg-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:In Babelsberg] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:Present] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.14]In Babelsberg - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:01.62] [00:22.89]The city's spread beneath my feet [00:26.26]But not the one that I was after [00:29.20] [00:31.59]While I've been pounding out this beat [00:34.36]The length of the kudamm [00:36.34] [00:39.16]Street legends on the tourist map [00:41.75]A fading script in gothic [00:44.41] [00:47.62]Out in the studio they're [00:49.41]Rehearsing in drag for a lark [00:52.45] [00:54.03]Come on let's get lost in the dark [00:58.85] [00:59.62]Tale another step another move another pace [01:04.69]What isn't written in the manuscript is a note to [01:08.98]Play with grace [01:10.43]And if I exit from this story in a way [01:14.66]I might retrace [01:16.61]It will have fallen through the cracks when I come back [01:20.82]In any case [01:23.89] [01:25.16]Another time's [01:27.80] [01:29.07]Another [01:29.72] [01:31.73]Place [01:36.04] [01:47.96]The city's spread beneath my feet [01:50.93]From the top of the mercedes tower [01:54.89]And I can see the darkness closing in [02:00.29]Hour by hour [02:03.45] [02:06.79]But I can't take [02:08.47]Another step [02:09.86]No filling in no [02:11.69]Cut and paste [02:12.95]A bankrupt process for the memory this terrain is laid to waste [02:18.47] [02:24.20]No nothing's written in the history books [02:27.44]That doesn't leave a nasty taste [02:30.33]So should I start to tell the story [02:33.25]Will you put me in my place [02:36.16]'Cause it'll all be crash and burn [02:39.05]When I return in any case [02:42.93] [02:44.52]Another time's [02:47.55] [02:48.31]Another [02:49.12] [02:50.53]Place [02:55.50] [03:10.38]Just when did this get broken [03:13.39] [03:14.27]I don't know where to begin [03:16.68] [03:17.86]I got a ubahn ticket and a flohmarkt token [03:22.13]I'm in trouble [03:23.20] [03:24.92]In the rubble of berlin [03:27.96] [03:40.71]The light is getting dimmer [03:43.88] [03:44.73]The walls of history close in [03:47.31] [03:48.65]In babelsberg they're hunting [03:50.84]For a different stimmung [03:52.74]That predates the war [03:54.94] [03:56.35]That was before [03:58.17] [04:04.09]That was before [04:06.09] [04:11.31]That was a different berlin [04:14.17] [04:15.44]That was another berlin [04:17.94] [04:19.16]That was before in berlin