South of Germany - Paul Kelly, The Messengers

Many lives I could have lived, many trails taken

It always seems that way at twenty-three

You walk into a room sometime and then a window opens

My life changed forever in the south of Germany

A morning train I had to catch, I just lay there sleeping

There was nothing in that town to hold me

By the time the clock had done another day of creeping

My life had changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I’m so sorry that today I have to go away

Seven children have I raised, I love some more than others

The hardest thing to do is set them free

So I learned my lesson hard seven times all over

My life changed forever in the south of Germany

I never was the kind of girl for acting sentimental

I never called our meeting destiny

I just call it good luck to meet a man so gentle

My life changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I’m so sorry that today I have to go away

Sometimes when I wake at night I’m dreaming of another

Then I turn and touch him next to me

And I know where I belong;

still I sometimes wonder

My life changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I’m so sorry that today I have to go away