Hitler’s Tears (Alternate Version)

[Verse 1]
One man's tears stain the pillow
Where he used to lay his head
He's living with a little lady
Who likes to treat him like Macbeth
He can hardly sleep for misery
You can hear him catch his breath
He grinds his teeth into the night
And the god says, "Hey, Adolf, everything alright?"

[Verse 2]
One boy's tears stain the paper
Where he writes his Christmas list
He inks in broken German
"I wanna be a fine artist"
Then he wipes out a whole continent
With a flick of his wrist
He's so lonely and misunderstanding
As he pulls his blanket across the landing

[Chorus]
Oh, you can hear them falling every day, Hitler's tears
Just open the newspaper (Hitler's tears)
You can hide, there's no escape from Hitler's tears—
Just what makes the führer blue?
He's crying for you
He's crying for you

[Verse 3]
One man's tears—he was a fascist
Before it was cool
'Cause now it's so expected
Just accept it, power is cruel
So he'll apply for reinstatement
In the reincarnation rule
He's the only man, most certainly
Who could claim to have learned from history

[Chorus]
Oh, you can hear them falling every day, Hitler's tears
Just open the newspaper (Hitler's tears)
You can hide, there's no escape from Hitler's tears—
Just what makes the führer blue?
He's crying for you
He's crying for you
He's crying for you

[Bridge]
Hitler cries himself to sleep, alone in Brazil, no one calls
How must it feel to be the biggest loser of them all?

[Verse 4]
One man's tears—saltwater swastikas salute the final trip
A thousand naughty Nazis
A fräulein with a bullwhip
A lullaby of Über Alles
Shaking upper lip
It's all become a Whitehall farce
That's how we tear our fears apart
You shouldn't take it straight to heart
So the rest of us can get to sleep tonight

[Chorus]
Hitler's tears
Just open the newspaper (Hitler's tears)
You can hide, there's no escape from Hitler's tears—
Just open the newspaper (Hitler's tears)
You can hide, there's no escape from Hitler's tears—
Just what makes the führer blue?
He's crying for you
He's crying for you
He's crying for you

[Outro]
He's crying for you
Hitler's tears
He's crying for you
Hitler's tears