She puts on her dress and she
wishes she had a new one
And she can't find her make -up
and she looks in the mirror
She hates what she sees today and her
mother calls her on the telephone
And they wish they had
something at last to say
She don't wanna think
about the future
She don't wanna settle down
and have a fam ily
She don't want a mother's
job that's ninety -five
And she don't want to be un
employed like her father
And the
TV's on and it's cooking
and burning
And she is waiting for someone to love
TV's on and it's cooking
and burning
And she is waiting for someone
to love
And she meets
Marcus at the central station
And he got a shiny knife
from his owner
Her brother he asked her
to jump on a train with him
And she thinks for one or two seconds
and then they're on
And she's never been to
Berlin
And she don't have any
money in her pocket
She thinks it must be a
hole in the pocket
They beg the ticket collector
And then they trade their knife for the trip
I said, then they trade their
knife for the trip
Then they trade their knife for the trip
And then they trade their knife
for the trip
She wakes up in a hotel and
she wakes up feeling good
She follows
Marcus to her reggae concert
and she loves to hear
Kaya in
German
And she gets a job as a shop assistant and
they find a house in the eastern area
And she thinks she wants to marry
Marcus and she knows
that he gets scared
When you ask her who she is,
then she says she is the future
When you ask her who she is,
then she says she is the fu ture
you