DDR - Tom Robinson

I grew up living in a Welfare State

Just the other side of the Brandenburg Gate

It’s called East Germany everywhere

But locally we know it as the DDR

Waiting for tomorrow, living for today

Living in the DDR

Sitting on a time bomb, we don’t care

We’re living for today

Living in the DDR

It’s a people’s paradise, you better believe it

Every other week people dying to leave it

Trucks full of Russkis carrying guns

We’ll be first in the fire when the third war comes

Waiting for tomorrow, living for today

Living in the DDR

Sitting on a time bomb, we don’t care

We’re living for today

Living in the DDR

After the party when the Wall came down

They closed all the factories in my home town

Shops full of everything money can buy

Skint and miserable, wishing that I

Was still living in the DDR

Waiting for tomorrow, living for today

Living in the DDR

Sitting on a time bomb, we don’t care

We’re living for today

Living in the DDR