Forty Years

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Here in Berlin - people line up
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 to get in
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To wait for the end - living in 
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glorious sin
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They've looked around - and now 
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there is no looking back
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To when rivers ran red - now it's
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 the sky that grows black
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Shadows are cast as two giants 
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roam over the earth
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We light a match - but what is 
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that little flame worth


[Chorus 1]
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Once allies danced and sang
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But it was forty years ago

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[Verse 2]
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Here in D.C. - they talk about 
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'Euro-disease'
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And how the French are always so 
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damn hard to please
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Motions are passed in Brussels but
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 no one agrees
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And no one walks tall - but 
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no-one gets down on their knees


[Chorus 2]
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Once allies laughed and drank
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But it was forty years ago

E  B  E  C  G  C  G


[Verse 3]
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Where I come from
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They don't like Americans much
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They think they're so loud, so 
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tasteless, and so out of touch
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Stiff upper lips are curled into 
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permanent sneers
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Self-satisfied
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Awaiting the next forty years


[Chorus 3]
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Once allies cried and cheered
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But it was forty years ago