Easterhouse - lenin in zurich, 1986

 

"As he did every morning, on 15 March 1917, Russian refugee Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin, put on his threadbare coat and the sturdy shoes that cobbler Titus Kammerer had made for him. He and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, were living in Kammerer’s home at Spiegelgasse 14, Zurich, as lodgers in a small second-floor room." 

 

In this Lonely Place
You could sink without a trace
Just another face
In a crowd of faceless people
Such a lonely man
Difficult to get along with
All the hours that he spends
Sitting in the Dark Library

Endless arguments
And the endless separations
There's no other way
You must fight until you get it right
When the fight for survival
Is the fight for a principle
If the principle dies
You don't have a chance