Different Germany Songtext
von Ian Anderson

The lights are down in Germany
And Germany is close to me
Different somehow this time
The airport′s stiff cold corridors
Ring empty beats through hollow feet
That I find to be mine

Different Germany
History repeats somehow
Different Germany
Afraid to know you now


And past my eyes with leveled gaze
Stare clean-cut boys
All dressed as men in sharpened uniform
Who turn the clock, move it on or back
And what dark chill is gathering still
Before the storm

Different Germany
History repeats somehow
Different Germany
Afraid to know you now

Out in the street a tableau double-glazed
With laughing girls whose passing smiles
Are clearly not meant for me

Different Germany
History repeats somehow
Different Germany
Afraid to know you now

The lights are down in Germany
And Germany is close to me
Different somehow this time