![]() So this whole thing is going on in middle Europe – it’s Kurt Weill. This century started out with this Assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo and that begat World War I which begat the Russian Revolution, then you had the Depression then that begat World War II and then that begat the Cold War and all that’s over but they’re still blowing each other to smithereens in Sarajevo. We are seeing the result of it in this ethnic warfare in the Balkans which is a tragedy. That kind of sick, middle-European, kinky decadent thing. The beginning and the end is very Kurt Weill. There is also a lot of inside stuff on the song. It was a place where cultures co-mingled. You get great beer in Vienna but you also get brandy from Armenia. It’s a place of inter…course, of exchange – it’s the place where cultures co-mingle. So the metaphor of Vienna has the meaning of a crossroad. During the Cold War, between the Eastern Bloc, the Warsaw Pact nations and the NATO countries was the city of Vienna… Vienna was always the crossroads – between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. He lives in Vienna, Austria which I thought was rather bizarre because he left Germany in the first place because of this guy named Hitler and he ends up going to the same place that Hitler hung out all those years! Vienna, for a long time was the crossroads. I didn’t see him from the time I was 8 ’till I was about 23-24 years old. “Why did I pick Vienna to use as a metaphor for the rest of your life? My father lives in Vienna now. ![]() You’re gonna kick off before you even get half through That you can get what you want or you can just get old When will you realize.Vienna waits for you? It’s all right, you can afford to lose a day or two You’ve got your passion, you’ve got your prideīut don’t you know that only fools are satisfied?ĭream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come trueĪnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need ![]() When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?Īlthough it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight That you can get what you want or you get old You’d better cool it off before you burn it outīut you know that when the truth is told. Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about?
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