Illusions - Udo Lindenberg, Das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg

Love is a game

You better play according to the rules

And yet we always scheme to much

And dream to much, we fools

Want to buy some illusions

Slightly used, second hand

They were lovely illusions

Reaching high, built on sand

They had a touch of paradise

A spell you can’t explain

For in this crazy paradise

You are in love with pain

Want to buy some illusions

Slightly used, just like new

Such romantic illusions

And they’re all about you

I sell them all for a penny

They make pretty souvenirs

Take my lovely illusions —

Som for laughs, some for tears

Too bad they all fll apart

As dreams often do

They were lovely illusions

But they just wouldn’t come true