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Behind the Iron Curtain v1
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Garni
I visited Berlin in 1987 and again in 2001, and the difference between the two trips has stayed with me.

On my first visit the city was still split in two by the Berlin Wall, built by East Germany in 1961 to stop its own people fleeing west. The Brandenburg Gate stood stranded behind the Wall, close enough to see but impossible to reach. A monument built to celebrate a united Germany had become a hard border between East and West, and a chilling reminder of what the war had left behind.

By 2001 everything had changed. The Wall had fallen in 1989, Germany had reunified in 1990, and the Gate stood open again in a city made whole. The fear I remembered had eased, but not vanished. You could still feel the ghost of the Wall hanging over the streets, a quiet reminder of how recent and how real that division had been.

Elyssia jumped in on the backing vocals again.

This one has been a while coming. 2 years.
Somewhere between takes my hard drive carked it and the version I had done vanished. All I had left was an mp3 I’d sent to Elyssia.

I’m not thrilled with my vocals on this. I had to chop them up to fit, which was a real pain to be honest. If I get the time I’ll go back and clean it up. I’ve also added my fretless on this one, the original didn’t have it.

So it’s still a work in progress, but I love where it’s heading, especially after hearing what Elyssia brought to it.

Stay tuned.
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Released 13-Nov-2026
Category Rock
Application Logic Pro
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Type mp3
Size 11.1 Mb
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Plays 3
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Weekly plays 3
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License No derivative works allowed
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Lyrics
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
by Gerald G ©Copyright 2024

Verse 1
Behind the Iron Curtain, where freedom was a whispered word,
We danced in secret, where no one could see or hear.
The music was forbidden, the rhythm was a crime,
But we moved our bodies like we were running out of time.

Chorus
We danced behind the wall,
Where the shadows watched us all.
We were young, we were free,
At least in our dreams we could be.

Verse 2
The streets of East Berlin were cold, the skies were always grey,
We watched the soldiers marching as we walked the other way.
We passed our music secretly, on tapes from hand to hand,
And dreamed about a better life beyond this troubled land.

Chorus 
We danced behind the wall,
Where the shadows watched us all.
We were young, we were free,
At least in our dreams we could be.

Verse 3
We heard the Western radio beneath the midnight sky,
The songs came through the static, and they made us feel alive.
We knew that we were different, we refused to live in fear,
And hoped that one day freedom would be something we could hear.

Chorus
We danced behind the wall,
Where the shadows watched us all.
We were young, we were free,
At least in our dreams we could be.
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Wyndsok
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Sounds pretty darn good to me Gerald. It's also very timely.
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