At The Elbe Lyrics

The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different ...Read Full Lyrics

She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" Smiling tourists in the picture back in sunny Italy...Read Full Lyrics

All my life Working at the factory The pay looked mighty good to me When my body was my own Doctor won't look me in the eye My youngest child asks why I won't ever see her grown. C...Read Full Lyrics

And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws The Fuhrer they say grows impatient "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind occupation? We will...Read Full Lyrics

The boy rolls the hoop past the barricade Pushing it fast with a stick that he made from a coathanger The hoop is a wheel of rusted steel from a junkyard bicycle The girl on the co...Read Full Lyrics

You hear so many rumors sometimes you get confused But I read it in Time Magazine and I heard it on the news We'll see dramatic changes in the lifestyle we enjoy If those megatons ...Read Full Lyrics

We have cleared off the table, the leftovers saved, Washed the dishes and put them away I have told you a story and tucked you in tight At the end of your knockabout day As the moo...Read Full Lyrics

I was born in the city hospital Torn from darkness into the light First man I saw was the first to hit me First woman I saw said hush don't cry. I played with girls till I was six ...Read Full Lyrics

In the stillness of the alley waits a man with an open blade And he hurts the woman badly and within her plants his seed She can't shake the dirt and horror as the seed takes root ...Read Full Lyrics

I remember the man Rising early in the morning Smelling of starch and aftershave Sometimes I would shave beside him With a plastic razor and a cardboard blade And watch his car dis...Read Full Lyrics