Forty years lyrics

Artist  : Joe jackson 
Song : Forty years
 
(on the 10th anniversary of the end of world war
ii)

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

Once allies danced and sang
But it was forty years ago

Here in d.c. - they talk about ’euro-disease’
And how the french are always so damn hard to
please
Otions are passed in brussels but no one agrees
And no one walks tall - but no-one gets down on
their knees

Once allies laughed and drank
But it was forty years ago

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

Once allies cried and cheered
But it was forty years ago