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The Berlin Wall

from Cry Till You Laugh by Terri Hendrix

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Musically, this was written like one of the many choral pieces I learned when I was studying opera. I had a nightmare, woke up, and charted what I’d dreamt to music. Lyrically, it’s both a metaphor and, literally, about the Berlin Wall, as wherever you laid your head to sleep the night before it was built was, for the most part, where you remained. It’s written from the perspective that wherever there is fear, there’s a wall. And birds, like hope, can make it over the top of the razor wire.
 
I’m an avid researcher of the deregulation of the media. I’ve written songs about this topic in the past and included their lyrics along with further thoughts on this subject, religion, fear, and love.

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That man is like the ocean wide
Takes me out just like the tide
I wake up on the other side
Of the Berlin wall
The Berlin wall

Sun come up
I blink into it
Slink into it
Nothin’ to it
Morning glories
Heed their call
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall

Hooded crows
A flock of grey
Pieces slowly chipped away
A souvenir to recall
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall

He can take
And give it back
Am I to weep and crawl
Newfound freedom
Is but a cage
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall

Speak to me
Of beauty
Dream to me
Of flying over
Lay me down
To sleep love
Cold against
The shoulder of
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall

That man is like the ocean wide
Takes me out just like the tide
I wake up on the other side
Of the Berlin wall
The Berlin wall

Sun come up
I blink into it
Slink into it
Nothin’ to it
Morning glories
Heed their call
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall

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from Cry Till You Laugh, track released June 22, 2010

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Terri Hendrix San Marcos

Terri Hendrix is an award-winning Texas songwriter who spins sorrow into joy and wrings wisdom from the blues with a poetic grace, warmth and uplifting melodic flair that has long been her trademark. A classically trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Hendrix dodges musical pigeonholes by weaving folk, pop, country, blues and jazz into an eclectic style all her own. ... more

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