In an interview with Drowned in Sound, Channy explains:
This has a dark emptiness. The chorus is: “The time you don’t even know what your name is”
It’s about feeling out of your mind when you don’t know where you are. It’s like you’ve lost yourself. I think the song seems very far from where I am...
Silent be in bed
Ashes drawn all around
And down my head
Silent be in bed
What we take
Stars aligned
While we play
Road goes on
We don’t know
Bone by bone
She’s a little one
A skinny one
A skinny lie
Do you know
What lies
Behind the door
Closed saying
Spider calls
Spider calls
Do you know
Lining my head
The time you don’t even know what your name is
What you mean to me
And the blood it can’t come off
But the lie can
To be to be
To be to be
Coming on my head
He said, he said, he said, he said
Oh no
A million times around
Around the bend
Around the bend
Child knows
What comes next
She said, she said
I’d be coming
We know we go
We’ll know
Since you’re here i’ll tell you
The time you don’t
Even know what your name is
What you mean to me
And the blood it can’t come off but the line is
To be to be
To be to be
Berlin was written by Ryan Olson & Channy Leaneagh & DeVon Gray.
Berlin was produced by Ryan Olson & DeVon Gray.