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The Berlin Waltz - film score


1. Resolution (instrumental)
2. Berlin Waltz
3. December 12 8 (instrumental)
4. Daydream

all songs composed by Lloyd Frost
© Blue Plazuela Music Inc

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BERLIN WALTZ

We were standing by my window on the 14th floor
watching Berlin go by
people were tiny and we heard the squeal
of every train on the curve as they ride
down below in the dark
or the grey of day
past foraging ragamuffins
and up here on 14
I’m wondering why
the elevator has no odd numbered buttons

Oh the secret police at first lead the race
their methods are truly outstanding
eyes in the walls and ears in the doors
and everyone informing
news of my neighbor
or a loved one at home
the best man at his friend’s only wedding
but down in the dark
a mysterious spark
or maybe it was only poor grounding

Then one night we stood on the wall and sang
relations reformed and forming
for quite some time everything’s fine
we’re living instead of performing
who knows what it was
maybe nostalgia
vegan dreams of beef or mutton
and up here on 14
I’m wondering why
the elevator has no odd numbered buttons
up here on 14
I’m still wondering why
the elevator has no odd numbered buttons

Dance with me dance with me
dance with me now
dance with me again
dance with me dance with me
waltzing in Berlin

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DAYDREAM

Daydream all day
Daydream it’ll be okay
Hold one all through the night
Even when there’s no light
Let it surround you never forever
Mystify and then
Follow it into
Into the daytime

Daydream through the day
Elation not far away
Maybe it only seems
I’m lost in a daydream
Let it surround you never forever
Mystify and then
Follow it into
Into the daytime

Daydream now gone away
Daydream no one will say
Some day I’ll follow too
And daydream just me and you
Let it surround you never forever
Mystify and then
Follow it into
Into the daytime

  • Lloyd Frost
    Author
  • Lloyd Frost
    Name of Band or Artist
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Der Berliner Walzer
  • Project Type:
    Film Score
  • Genres:
    Classical, Popular, Rock
  • Length:
    14 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 3, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Student Project:
    No
Artist Biography

Lloyd Frost is an Canadian filmmaker and singer-songwriter whose short films blend narrative and documentary genres. Themes have included authoritarian regimes - both past and present - and living with terrorism attacks. He presents his stories in a mostly gentle style.

His multiple award-winning 2013 film 'In Everyone's Eyes (en todas las miradas)' and the more pointed director’s cut 'In Everyone's Eyes – El ultimo! (2018) are poetic, slyly subversive looks at free speech and human rights in Cuba. 'The Sun Is Rising' (2015) asks if there is a key to talking about terrorism attacks. 'The Berlin Waltz' is his first short film.

Frost's debut album ‘The Sun Is Rising & Other True Stories’ (2015) with genre-crossing quirky tracks was released with a live performance at SAW Gallery, Ottawa and an exhibit of his film-related images at Vistek.

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Artist Statement

“Give me absolute control / over every living soul” (Leonard Cohen, The Future) describes half the story of an authoritarian State. I’m also interested in how people cope when their words or actions can lead to calamity.

On one of my early visits to Berlin I stayed in the tallest apartment building constructed by the GDR during the years of the Berlin Wall. The concrete ceiling and walls isolated me from my neighbors but street sounds easily passed through the thin windows. I wondered - what had the original occupants heard and seen in those years?

At both the administrative headquarters and the secret Remand Prison in Berlin, exhibits show how the Stasi successfully spied not simply on its own citizens, but also had informers spy on friends and even family members. Then late one night in my GDR flat, as I listened to the S-Bahn from Alexanderplatz pass below, I wrote the title song 'Berlin Waltz'.

I was fortunate three friends of mine had lived in the divided Berlin and have an appreciation for those unusual years. Our locations ranged from period apartments to grand GDR monuments like the Tranenpalast - a checkpoint forbidden to all but a few East Berliners - and the metaphorical doorway for the characters in my film.