AmDm
I am a refugee now, I am running like mad
GCE
across a frosty green Poland, my head in a sack.
AmDm
And the blood in my brain screaming "How did this happen?"
GCE
and "Where am I now?" Who is so blue in this freeze?
[Verse 2]
AmDm
Who is so grey with the history, rain dancing all
GCE
on my face without mercy and the muscles relax.
AmDm
And I just have to laugh through the loose teeth and tissue,
GCE
the symphony builds under your boot.
[Verse 3]
AmDm
And the horns drool in harmony, dancers all swoon,
GCE
this is my bloody tune, my last gasp of the past.
AmDm
My thorn in the side of the violence of time,
GCE
I won't scream, I won't writhe, I am laughing and burning.
[Verse 4]
AmDm
Alive like a thornbush that grew in the hot
GCE
countryside, now the fire is high and I am not
AmDm
consumed. Yes, this is the room,
GCE
this is the old song from memory, this is the sound of the
AmDmGCE
Jew who refuses to die.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
AmDm
April 4th, 1944,
GCE
I recall my old address no more.
AmDm
I live day to day on the glossy dancefloor
GCE
of a wide countryside full of disappeared people.
[Verse 6]
AmDm
I sleep in the churches, eat grass like a goat,
GCE
the calendar hangs on the wall of my memory.
AmDm
My name is inscribed up the sleeve of my coat,
GCE
here I am.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 7]
AmDm
Take this document with you, the lines that I wrote
GCE
as I bled through the night in a strange rusted land.
AmDm
I have ripped the page out, it is here in my hand,
GCE
here I am.
[Verse 8]
AmDm
Person of the book but I have lost my page
GCE
like so many others I am left to inscribe
AmDm
my own name on a torn one we will have a new book
GCE
scattered far across the expanses. The scrapbook
[Verse 9]
AmDm
of signatures scrawled in forgotten, lost diaries,
GCE
texts to recite when time's bloody boot, dances
AmDm
and kicks in the bone of our chest, like soft earth
GCE
and our ancient hoarse voices will echo in song.
[Verse 10]
AmDm
And resound off the curve of a high stony ceiling,
GCE
the curve of the arch from our death to our [Outro] birth.
[Outro]
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