Inspired by "Nightfall" (by Living-in-Transcendence,
www.fanfiction.net)--actually very sophisticated, and God knows if it will ever get romantic, like this:
Unsere beiden Schatten
sahen wie einer aus
dass wir lieb uns hatten
das sah man gleich daraus.
Und alle Leute
sollen es sehen
wenn wir bei der
Laterne stehen
wie einst, Lili Marlene,
wie eins, Lili Marlene.
Our two shaows
looked like one,
so that anyone could see right away
that we loved each other,
and everybody shall see it
when we stand by the lantern,
as once, Lili Marlene, as one, Lili Marlene
But the song has been bugging me ever since chapter one, set in Germany, January, 1933. Jack is a caberet actor, and Ennis is a painter.
This Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht song from "The threepemnny Opera" would perhaps be in better keeping:
Wach' auf, du verrotteter Krist;
mach' dich an dein suendiges Leben.
Zeig' , was fuer ein Shurker du bist
Der Herr Gott wird's dir denn shon geben.
Verschacke dein' Bruder, do Schupf,
Verkaufe dein Eheweib, du Wicht,
Der Herr Gott-- fuer dich ist er Luft?
Er zeig's dir bei'm juengsten Gericht....
Wake up you rotten Christian
get moving with your sinful life.
show what a scoundrel you are
the lord God, he'll let you have it!
chain up your brother, you pusher
sell you wife, you critter-
The lord God, for you is he thin air?
he's let you have it at the Last Judgement!