Name: Karl-Marx-Allee
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: Throughout the winter of 2010-11 we were staying in Berlin, in the Friedrichshain area, and had to make the long walk up and down the huge boulevard Karl-Marx-Allee in the snow to use the internet cafe at Alexanderplatz. That became the inspiration for this song which was written on ukulele a few months later in Budapest.

Karl-Marx-Allee

from Sketches Of Europa by SoulJahm

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Throughout the winter of 2010-11 we were staying in Berlin, in the Friedrichshain area, and had to make the long walk up and down the huge boulevard Karl-Marx-Allee in the snow to use the internet cafe at Alexanderplatz. That became the inspiration for this song which was written on ukulele a few months later in Budapest.

lyrics

When you walk alone but you're not alone
When you say the word but you seldom talk

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me

When you open doors in the freezing cold
Such a long way home still we take the road

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy

They're shooting rockets to the sky
From my bunker I ask why
To awaken into your own life when you're playing dead

See the tower up ahead and I feel like I'm ready
So I look to the window and I'm sure I am sure

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy
Karl-Marx-Allee always with me

When you walk alone
Alone
Alone
When you walk alone....

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from Sketches Of Europa, released June 17, 2023
Vocals - David William & Kate Threadgould
Melodica - Kate Threadgould
Handclaps - Kate Threadgould & David William
All other instruments by David William

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