Your adventures in the black forest is where you begin
You buried your lover's name on paper in the ground
A secret the warm earth would hold for you
Keep it so safe and so very sound
Now you're hiding human secrets
Behind black curtains in your living room
All the shelves in town are bare
It's the coldest winter war's declared
Little boy with a rucksack before he was gone, he was there
The night the lights go on in Holland, dear
Will be the night the light shines on us all
The night the lights go on in Holland, dear
Remind that even tyrants rule then, they fall
They took your husband away,
Mix up with his official papers
So you got on your bicycle and you rode nine miles to see him
And of course you couldn't free him
On your way home is when you took your nasty fall
You had a babe within
You weren't sure if she was determined to be born,
To be born of this world
Hiding there in your womb, though desperation did loom
To all this suffering, there's an end
The night the lights go on in Holland, dear
Be the night the light shines on us all
The night the lights go on in Holland, dear
Remind that even tyrants rule then they fall. They fall
That's when you learn to come together in the darkness
And to save your tender parts for tender times
In the sky, cigarettes and rations fallin'
And the doctor, he is callin'
It is time, it's time, it's time
The night the lights went on in Holland, dear
Was the night your sweet baby was born
Yeah, the night the lights went on in Holland, dear
Remind that even tyrants rule then, they fall
And there is hope, hope, hope for us all
Ah, ah, ah
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
The night the lights went on in Holland, dear
Was the night your sweet baby was born