To all those that think this is about somebody trying to escape communism or a wall guard or something mundane like that you are denigrating Halford's poetry.
Berlin is used as a metaphor of oneself. Torn like the city in 2. It's even stated directly in the lyrics "I'm Berlin".
It's everywhere in the lyrics:
"Grand canyons of space and time universal
My mind is subjected to all"
his mind is torn in two separated by a rift.
To all those that think this is about somebody trying to escape communism or a wall guard or something mundane like that you are denigrating Halford's poetry. Berlin is used as a metaphor of oneself. Torn like the city in 2. It's even stated directly in the lyrics "I'm Berlin". It's everywhere in the lyrics: "Grand canyons of space and time universal My mind is subjected to all" his mind is torn in two separated by a rift.
How people can miss that is beyond me.