Düsseldorf

In Düsseldorf i met a clown His nose, it was red In gelterkinden i forgot to frown Then remembered again In Paris i saw a big fish Swimming slow in the seine It made me hopeful that someday our Water will be breathable again In frankfurt i heard ein zwei drei Counting cookies and no one was shot In berlin stopped by the polizai For drunk driving and everyone smiled In prague i knew i'd been a witch Burnt alive, a pyre of soviet kitsch It made me miss my moscow mother It made me miss my New York nothing In Montpelier i stayed in a chateau A girl climbed into my bed and she knew no boundaries And in Amsterdam i got quite crazy Might have been all the tulips and canals Or it might have been all that hash, and in Barcelona - buenos dias, chocolate, le picasso And in Brussels, clean-cut hostel And in London, me and the french existentialists In corsica i floated away All the way to marseilles I should have held an afterparty For all the thoughts i didn't say In dusseldorf i met a dwarf With bad breath and a really good tan In gelterkinden i remembered how to laugh And i never ever forgot it again --- Düsseldorf - Regina Spektor