On the corners of boulevards I call your name
Now and again they play our tune
In the grip of a tiny hand over a flame
Pale as the phases of the moon ...
In the cafes and shopping malls I see your face
turn into mist on evening dew
but a book and a photograph just aren't the same
there is a train that's leaving soon

...Budapest by Blimp

Over pillars and palaces I'll hold your hand
Until the fog is lifted
May be better you hold me close than understand
How far away I've drifted
In the face of a tragedy too bleak to know
The death of some grand illusion
All the treasure we pilloried, splendour we stole ...
They never told you that in school

* Konnyebb volna tan feledni
Mint tavozasom erteni
Multobol egy kiszak itott lap
E kodbol indul egy vonat

...Budapest by Blimp

** ...Que je voudrais vous presenter, messieurs et dames
Regardez bien, je vous en prie
Here's a map and a diagram, a shrivelled page
Ripped from the book of history
See the priceless antiquity frozen in time
Built on the ashes of the Jews
And for your curiosity, beauty sublime
Signed in the blood of Zulus
Not really a goosestep, more of a limp

...Budapest by Blimp

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* From the Hungarian :
Konnyebb volna tan feledni
Mint tavozasom erteni
Multobol egy kiszak itott lap
E kodbol indul egy vonat
To English :
Perhaps it would be easier to forget
Than to understand my departure
A torn page from the past
A train is leaving from this fog

** From the French :
Que je voudrais vous presenter, messieurs et dames
Regardez bien, je vous en prie
To English :
I want you now, gentlemen and ladies
Look closely, I beg you

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