This track is inspired by the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, based on the 1940 Ernest Hemingway novel. The song itself is about the Berlin Wall, which divided a city and a nation; A guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. This song is a call for the dismantling of the Wall and the reunification of Germany. It was finally brought down by the German public in 1989 after a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries Poland and Hungary, causing a chain reaction in East Germany. Primarily however, the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 set in motion a peaceful development during which the Iron Curtain largely broke, the rulers in the East came under pressure to cease their repressive policies, and the Berlin Wall fell.
This track is inspired by the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, based on the 1940 Ernest Hemingway novel. The song itself is about the Berlin Wall, which divided a city and a nation; A guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. This song is a call for the dismantling of the Wall and the reunification of Germany. It was finally brought down by the German public in 1989 after a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries Poland and Hungary, causing a chain reaction in East Germany. Primarily however, the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 set in motion a peaceful development during which the Iron Curtain largely broke, the rulers in the East came under pressure to cease their repressive policies, and the Berlin Wall fell.