Torn from home
Sent down death’s railroad are we
When we wake up tomorrow
Will we still be wearing this curse?
Will we wake up tomorrow?
Which punishment is worse?
Day one:
No sun
Stripped of our names
Now we are merely numbers
Permanently inked in the flames
Our kind
Our existence lights the fire
Igniting hell on earth
Archangels bending crosses hooked
Innocent men, women, children
Sentenced before conviction
With golden stars to guide them
Their gavel is the end of a gun
Day two:
Lived through
More culprits arrive
Every cage so crowded
How will we survive through the night?
Our kind
Our existence lights the fire
Igniting hell on earth
Archangels bending crosses
Hooked
First day in hell
First day in hell
See the terror in abandoned gazes
Fear sunken eyes
Get the guards and walk a dozen paces
Saturnine
First day in hell
Incarcerated without reason
Doomed by blood
Anti-venom for a poisoned nation
Our birth right
Week five:
Alive
Soon out of time
After all that I’ve here witnessed
There’s no value in life
Our kind
Our existence lights the fire
Igniting hell on earth
Archangels bending crosses
Hooked
First day in hell
First week in hell
See the terror in abandoned gazes
Fear sunken eyes
Get the guards and walk a dozen paces
Saturnine
First month in hell
Incarcerated without reason
Doomed by blood
Anti-venom for a poisoned nation
Our birth right
Last day in hell
The vocalist was inspired to write the song by her grandparents, both of whom survived the Holocaust. “I heard these stories from them,” she explains, “and I thought it was about time to just take this personal weight that I had in this historic event and translate it into a song.”
For more in depth background information on the Holocaust, I would suggest heading to Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, “a monument and a name”), established in 1953, is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, located on the western slope of Mount Herzl in western Jerusalem, Israel.
