"The Last Day Of The War" lyrics

Ah, lest we should forget
Ah, when we were young
When all the music played
La la la
And we danced the night away

On the last day of the war
Bold like a dinosaur
There were trains crashing in the night
This is the way we say good night

In the burnt out shelter of a Berghain basement
Searching the rubble for your replacement
I found traces of a life before on a piece of broken door

Jill loves Mary-lee's, winter 1983
Now they're here no more
England swings like a broken door

I didn't heed the warning signs
Stay indoors, don't go outside
If you don't wanna catch your death
There's a million others you can catch instead

I took a postcard back to you
Back to the moment when love fell through
There's a wind blind like the back of the world
With its mouth wide open, screaming to be heard

Buildings fall down to the ground
Like knees in the city with their headlines down
Days, cracking in the night
A million shadows and a half-light
I don't mind in the city of dreams
Dead roses and skeleton trees
Lifeless cheerless pantomime
Everybody on bedtime

Killing time
Killing time
Killing time
Dead [?] killing time
Killing time
[?]
Killing, killing time
Killing, killing time
Killing, killing time
Dead time, killing time

This is the way we say good night

Who knows what tomorrow may bring
You never know what may be just around the corner
Mother always said, live for the day

Now all the things
That people say
Heh, now we won't say them anyway

Now we won't dance
La, la, la...
When all the music played
La, la, la...
Dance the night away
Live for today, tomorrow belongs to no one
La, La, La...