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Berlin Ain't What It Used To Be

from The Buddhist by Kye Alfred Hillig

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Claudia’s friend Linda who recently died,
Worked with us too back when she was alive
And I’d threaten to take her out when I got paid
She’d laugh and say, “Go find someone you’re own age!”
But if you saw these two old Germans you’d know two things:
1) That friendship can be hard, and that...
2) Berlin ain’t what it used to be

Claudia and I would work side by side,
Scraping the ceilings after some violent crime
And she’d think she saw a ghost and asked if I had seen
Stepping out for a smoke saying, “Berlin ain’t what it used to be.”

But here you are a million miles from home
And the wall has fallen
And you’ve changed yourself, you know?
So they built some condos
So they hung up some new lights
I bet you after the sun goes down that the fucker really sparkles at night

I watched these two old Germans down scrubbing the floors,
Picking up human teeth from beneath a chest of drawers
And how they’d stay out all night long back when they were teens
A different guy each night, but now Berlin ain’t what it used to be

Linda quit her job and moved to LA
To live with her son and sit by the pool all day
And when she walked away her stride was light and free,
And Claudia cried, “Berlin ain’t what it used to be.”

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from The Buddhist, released August 14, 2014

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Kye Alfred Hillig Tacoma, Washington

Lost his family in a house fire, but saved his guitar. Plays songs his family’s never heard. (Tacoma, WA Singer-Songwriter)

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