Name: Heroes Of The Crumbling Divide
Duration: P00H05M53S
Description: The vocal and guitar track was also recorded in the cellar of my parental home, albeit a few months later, the final mix with added electric and bass guitars took place at Mashnova Studios in Bermondsey. Lyrically this songs refers back to my days in Berlin, just before the fall of the wall. The music takes its cuefrom a very well known track about a similar scene.

Heroes Of The Crumbling Divide

from SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SONGS by Schönfeld

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The vocal and guitar track was also recorded in the cellar of my parental home, albeit a few months later, the final mix with added electric and bass guitars took place at Mashnova Studios in Bermondsey. Lyrically this songs refers back to my days in Berlin, just before the fall of the wall. The music takes its cuefrom a very well known track about a similar scene.

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There I stood in a Berlin basement
Singing “this is not a love song” to you
There was a crack in the wall the heroes had gone
We didn’t want to but knew it was true

The city was open but we didn’t get very far
Seeking redemption and singing out of tune
Just like a young Bob Dylan with a heroin smile
We ditched our guitars for a needle and a spoon

The streets now seem so far away
And all our dreams but forgotten
Wake up it’s a brand new day
A brand new tune to play

She danced like Cinderella on a wrecking ball
To muffled beats of sad-eyed songs
When she talked of love and loneliness
Her heart sang in twisting tongues

With a longing we gazed at the crumbling divide
The rivers of change washed our past away
Flooding the streets with new life and false hope
We had no more songs to sing and nothing to say

There never was no love song
That could wash our souls clean
There nver were no heroes
Now nothings what it seems
Those streets now seem so far away
And all our dreams but forgotten
Wake up its a brand new world
No stone left unturned

There never was no love song
Just lifeless drum machines
There never was no wall
It was all just bad dreams

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from SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SONGS, released May 3, 2015
Thomas Schönfeld (vocals, classical, electric & bass guitars)

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