Berlin Songs - The Metro Lyrics

Berlin - The Metro

Berlin - The Metro Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Pleasure Victim
Released: 1982

The Metro Lyrics

The Metro
Berlin

I'm alone
Sitting with my empty glass
My four walls
Follow me through my past
I was on a Paris train
I emerged in London rain
And you were waiting there
Swimming through apologies

I remember searching for the perfect words
I was hoping you might change your mind
I remember a soldier sleeping next to me
Riding on the Metro

You wore white
Smiling as you took my hand
So removed
We spoke of wintertime in France
Minutes passed with shallow words
Years have passed and still the hurt
I can see you now
Smiling as I pulled away

I remember the letter wrinkled in my hand
"I'll love you always" filled my eyes
I remember a night we walked along the Seine
Riding on the Metro

I remember a feeling coming over me
The soldier turned, then looked away
I remember hating you for loving me
Riding on the Metro

Writer/s: CRAWFORD, JOHN BUCKNER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Metro

Berlin bass player John Crawford wrote this song. It's about a man riding to Paris to visit his girlfriend. The Metro is the underground transportation system in Paris.

The line "thank you for loving me" is often misheard as "f--k you for loving me."

System Of A Down covered this in 2000. Their version was used on the soundtrack of Not Another Teen Movie.

Berlin couldn't get many radio stations to play this song, but they had better luck with MTV, which put the video in rotation thanks in no small part to lead singer Terri Nunn, who gave them an attractive female to show alongside their Toto and Huey Lewis and the News clips. MTV was still in its infancy, so record companies were stingy with budgets for the videos. Berlin shot the clips for "The Metro" and "Sex" back to back over two days. Nunn was not happy about shooting the subway scene over and over. Exhausted, she got frustrated and started crying, which was the footage they used. Her anger and tears were exactly what the director was looking for.