I hear a couple of differences. I hear "We can work it all out" in the chorus, and i hear the second two verses end differently, the first as "ask me to sin, ask me to sin in red" and the second as "auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen, goodnight", tho I noticed in the video the "ask me to sin" line is repeated the second time through. Oh, and I am in love with this song and have listened to it 24 times today.
As a narrative, I imagine a couple going to visit a city where one of them lived before they met. They pass an old friend of the non-narrative partner, and he doesn't acknowledge them. The narrator asks his partner why. His partner becomes upset, and the narrator relents, and attempts to comfort his distraught lover. As more people bustle by, the upset partner becomes more aggressive and angry and says some things he probably shouldn't. The narrator is steadfast in his commitment to making things work and points out that the two of them could even find happiness in hell, and that his reason for coming to the city in the first place is to spend time with his lover, not to see the sights. He reassures his lover that the two of them will "never never end", and promises to never ask again what happened between his lover and his lover's friend.
But the song is better as a set of feelings without a narrative structure.
I hear a couple of differences. I hear "We can work it all out" in the chorus, and i hear the second two verses end differently, the first as "ask me to sin, ask me to sin in red" and the second as "auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen, goodnight", tho I noticed in the video the "ask me to sin" line is repeated the second time through. Oh, and I am in love with this song and have listened to it 24 times today.
As a narrative, I imagine a couple going to visit a city where one of them lived before they met. They pass an old friend of the non-narrative partner, and he doesn't acknowledge them. The narrator asks his partner why. His partner becomes upset, and the narrator relents, and attempts to comfort his distraught lover. As more people bustle by, the upset partner becomes more aggressive and angry and says some things he probably shouldn't. The narrator is steadfast in his commitment to making things work and points out that the two of them could even find happiness in hell, and that his reason for coming to the city in the first place is to spend time with his lover, not to see the sights. He reassures his lover that the two of them will "never never end", and promises to never ask again what happened between his lover and his lover's friend.
But the song is better as a set of feelings without a narrative structure.
Meh.