It looks to me as if the song is (at least in part) about the fall of Communism in Germany. The first lines are blatantly about the fall in 1989 (references to the wall and the curtain) and then the second verse "another year and the job was done..." refers to the disappearance of East Germany a year later.
It looks to me as if the song is (at least in part) about the fall of Communism in Germany. The first lines are blatantly about the fall in 1989 (references to the wall and the curtain) and then the second verse "another year and the job was done..." refers to the disappearance of East Germany a year later.
Yeah definitely!
Yeah definitely!
"when the wall came down" "the [iron] curtain was crumbling" "the old republic was dead and gone"
"when the wall came down" "the [iron] curtain was crumbling" "the old republic was dead and gone"
But I think it's more a metaphor for the rest of the song than actually being about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But I think it's more a metaphor for the rest of the song than actually being about the fall of the Berlin Wall.