Das ist Berlin wie's weint, das ist Berlin wie's lacht deutsche Übersetzung
von Marlene Dietrich

The city of Berlin has been sung about by many
The longest lies today under green grass
For us, those are simply just memories
As if mother were reading us a fairy tale

One loves it, the other bitches about it
Some things happened that have now turned to dust
But some things are the same today as yesterday
That's Berlin, how it cries and how it laughs

Berlin, Berlin, you're a hot sidewalk
Those who don't know you, quickly burn their feet
Where Moral lives, lives also Vice
And the criticism blooms next to empty chatter


Berlin, Berlin, here lives a person dangerously
And if they slip, then no one turns around
But if they fall then the applause is honest
Berlin, Berlin, you are my audience.

Berlin, Berlin, when your flowers sprout
There outside in the allotments
One sees you, stands, and diligently waters them
The rosemary and the celery too

Mothers feel their lifetimes pass by
In their last wills it will be fixed:
“Don't forget me only to go and water your fathers.”
That's Berlin, how it cries and how it laughs

That's Berlin, how it cries and how it laughs!