lyrics

You say fifty marks, I say one hundred marks
A difference of fifty marks
Why should that stand in our way?
As long as the room’s to let
The fifty that I’ll get
Is fifty more than I had yesterday,
When you’re as old as I
Is anyone as old as I?
What difference does it make?
An offer comes, you take

[stand in our way] 
to stop or to prevent something or someone
[to let] 
available for rent

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you’ll learn how to settle
For what you get
It will all go on if we are here or not
So who care ? So what ?

[settle]
resolve, secure style of life 
*deal with, reach an agreement

When I was a girl
My summers were spent by the sea
So what?

And I had a maid doing all of the housework
Not me
So what!

Now I scrub up the floors
And I wash down the walls
And I empty the chamber pot
If it ended that way
Then it ended that way
And I shrug and I say
So what !

[shrug]
raise one’s shoulders slightly and momentarily to express doubt(uncertainty)

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you’ll learn how to settle
For what you get
It will all go on if we are here or not
So who care ? So what ?

When I had a man
My figure was dumpy and fat
So What?
Through all of our years
He was so disappointed in that
So What?

Now I’ve got what he missed
and my figure is trim
But he lies in a churchyard plot
It is wasn’t to be 
That he ever would see 
The uncorseted me
So what?

[dumpy]short and stout(rather fat)
[trim]slim and fit
[uncorseted]Noun:corset→Adj:corseted

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you’ll learn how to settle
For what you get
It will all go on if we are here or not
So who care ? So what ?

So once, I was rich
And now all my fortune is gone
So what?

And love disappeared
And only the memory lives on
So what?

If I lived through all that!
Fifty marks doesn’t mean a lot
If I like that you are here 
Happy New Year, my dear
So what?

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you’ll learn how to settle
For what you get
It will all go on if we are here or not
So who care ? So what ?

It all goes on
So who cares?
Who cares?
So What!

Analysis

This number is singing at the scene of conversation by a young American writer who arrived at Berlin and a proprietress(female proprietor).

She singing about her experiences and past in this scene.Her brightness life had left from her, but anyone don’t sure, anyone don’t care.She can only say that “So what”.This number depicts the cruel aspects of society.

Sun and Moon, you can also see the comparison in this number.
As you know, Something rose up at Berlin in 1929-1930.