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The song ‘Over de Muur’, translated in English as ‘Over the Wall’, tells of the sharp contrasts in 1980’s Berlin, of Western influences in the western part of the city and communist/Russian influences in the eastern part. The main lyric translates to “Only the birds fly from West to East Berlin, they won’t be shot down or called back”, implicitly criticizing the ridiculous situation of one city’s residents being so completely separated by military force.