Different Germany - Ian Anderson

The lights are down in Germany

And Germany is closed 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 leathered gaze

Stare clean-cut boys all dressed as men

In sharpened uniform

Who turned the clock?

(moved 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 fastened 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 closed to me

Different somehow this time