Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio

Atmospherics
Leave the bureau in the snow
Catch a tram to Onkel Pö
Early evening ring around the moon;
Slip in past the concierge
By the bikes and up the stairs
Snap the latch and creep into the room

You throw off your coat
Pick up the post
And put a coffee on
Lie down on the bed
Prop up your head
And smoke a cigarette...
Listen to the radio

In the city late tonight
Double feature, black and white
Bitter Tears and Taxi to the Klo
Find a bar, avoid a fight
Show your papers, be polite
Walking home with nowhere else to go

You throw off your coat
Pick up my note
And put another coffee on
Lie down on the bed
Lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette...
Listen to the radio

Atmospherics after dark
Noise and voices from the past
Across the dial from Moscow to Cologne:
Interference in the night
Thousand miles on either side
Stations fading into the unknown:

So throw off your coat
Butter some toast
And put the coffee on;
Lie down on the bed
Lay back your head
We'll smoke another cigarette...
And listen to the radio...
Listen to the radio