[Verse 1] 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 Would be breathable again [Verse 2] In Frankfurt I heard eins zwei drei Counting cookies and no one was shot In Berlin stopped by the Polizei 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 muttdom It made me miss my New York nothing [Verse 3] In Montpelier I stayed in a chateau
A boy climbed into my bed and he knew no boundaries In Amsterdam I got quite crazy It might have been all the tulips and can*ls Or it might have been all that hash, and in Barcelon, buenos dias, chocolato, le Pica**o And in Brussels, clean-cut hostel And in London, me and the French existentialists [Verse 4] In Corsica I floated away, all the way to Marseilles I should have held an after party for all the thoughts I didn't say In Düsseldorf 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