Goodbye To Berlin

The first line of the lyric is a derivation from Christopher Isherwood's novel about Weimar before Hitler. 

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

From the book "What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-1933": "Jews have discovered in writing about the urban scene and the spiritual landscape of the city dweller. They have revealed the whole diversity of urban civilization. They have discovered the cafe in the factory, the bar and the hotel,  Berlin's bourgeoisie and its banks, the watering holes of the rich and the slums of the poor, sin and vice, the day of the city in the City by Night, the character of the inhabitant of the Metropolis." 

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