I woke up on a sofa. I didn't know where I was for a second. It was cold and dark and there was what sounded like a
pneumatic drill coming from outside the window. I switched on my phone and glanced at the news. All indicators were
that the apocalypse was nigh. I opened the shutters but there was no light or workman, just a sea of people dressed
in black, perhaps a funeral for the end of the world. Then I remembered that I'd just arrived in Berlin and someone
had said;

'Weirdos dance in dark places
Because the world doesn't like our faces'

Because I'd said 'how do you say 'how do you say' in German?'
'And why am I here anyway?' 
'And do you know the date or time?'

'Sure, September 1st 1939'

I went outside to investigate what the noise was. It was freezing underfoot and everywhere I looked there were people
dancing, drinking, kissing and pissing. Then I realised that for some reason I wasn't wearing any shoes. Perhaps I'd 
thrown them in the canal in some kind of futile protest against capitalism? It wasn't long before I stumbled into a park 
surrounded by guys in sequin vests and riot police attempting to dismantle a PA system. But when they did, the drilling 
was still there.

'Weirdos dance in dark places
Because the world doesn't like our faces'

I was still feeling pretty disorientated, perhaps because I was in a new country under the influence of various stimulants.
Then I saw some people being shepherded out of the park who were carrying banners about discrimination and a 
few guys with as much money as half the world's population and I realised it wasn't 1939, it was May Day 2017 
and the noise was in fact that of a whole world in drunken disrepair being drilled in the back of my cranium.

Weirdos Dance In Dark Places

There will be times little baby when you want to give in
Times when this town looks like its evil twin
Especially on a sunny day
When all you want to do is run away

There will be times little baby when you're sat on your own
Falling through Sunday like a sinking stone
And even on a sunny day
You'll never think you can survive the day

There will be times little baby when you feel no worth
Wishing you'd never been put on this earth
And somehow on a sunny day
It's harder to make the pain go away

There will be times little darling when you just don't fit in
No matter what you do you just can't win
And though it is a sunny day
Nothing can stop you from feeling that way

So when those times hit you baby and it's all not right
Even the sun is laughing at your life
Feels like it is the end
Feels like the dog is your only friend
You can turn it around
Get out of the town

Up the Downs

Weirdos Dance In Dark Places

NathanielJForrester

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