Deny

歌詞

So this is war, more blood poured from the fountain As I'm counting on the cold hand Of those that abstain and demand More ground gained from the crosses that we follow into battle I swallow in the whole Earth rattle It was all too real from the moment that I peeled My steel cap back And saw the black knife fade into first light Some fat balding man had the clever insight That might makes right so under infrared sight We steadily advance I raised from my crouched stance As boards marked the time I danced through lines of dead men Who've been forever left behind and lie with their own kind But I turn my mind off, desensitizing I find myself surmising on how I can plant my flag upon the horizon So glory finds me and I can be History's first living soul on the beaches of Normandy And slay me a thousand Germans Cause revenge is burning hot as pistol shot and I can smell bodies Rotting on both sides of the divide but the tide of the battle has turned The good guys have returned So we succeed in the beachhead but success is relative Relatively high numbers of dead blood stained human remains But the Nazis fled so we advance into France We meet the underground resistance behind enemy lines, making good distance At the insistence of our leaders We follow up on every lead, even a tree can be a trap But one look at the map showed the Germans were withdrawing Citizens were applauding As they plotted how to pay back the citizen assassins We started liberating towns to the ticker-tape tirades Of humans too tired to wage war anymore It looked like war had but a few months left before we could all rest And go home to our families But then we heard rumor of a place Where an entire human race was taken and laid to waste A camp where crazed experiments take place And rows of corpses overflowed mass graves There were things to be seen and turn you to burn inside The soldiers were told to see with their own eyes So I went to see it so I could explain without laying blame History's made a name of stories so I will call it as I see it I see fit to record it so the truth cannot be distorted But I must warn you, truth is cold Souls stolen from right under the skin A prison where inmates' fate was wrapped and lay The feat past the gates and doctors decided Whether you were pesticide-ed or provided with a tattoo used to ID you When death from exposure overcame you So I walked past the gates and saw plain brick buildings And then the real world faded "I hated every breath:" the words to express what I saw when Auschwitz fell A living hell, you couldn't tell The living dead from the skeletons enveloped in this valley of death The stink of charred flesh made my breath catch We couldn't match the millions Of dead civilians to what we had believed to be humans "How could this happen?" I asked my captain and for a moment This proponent of atonement just shook his head Cause it was best left unsaid But being Jewish on the other side of the divide meant I knew my history Without having to face its wrath The path of six million goes way beyond the math I can't understand the way you feel See Poland fell first and Jews were the first to feel it Herded into units by perverted Germans who used their loose liberties To sexually abuse and misuse in full view of the camera But it never made the news Cause most Poles agreed that all Jews were infected They infested every stock-invested bank And every government think-tank had at least a Jew or two So who am I to play the fall guy? When I cast my eye on the neighbor's grass Where it's truly greener on the other side I must confide that I hate Jews just about as much as the Germans do So when the burning smoke chokes out the air and all I smell is burning hair I'll turn a blind eye and comply With every single lie that you make us recite so we won't ask any questions I'm just an average citizen See many Europeans felt that Jews were just pollution A problem finally solved by the Final Solution Where Communists, Jews, gypsies, and handicapped queers All became the target of irrational fears Fed by the flames of state-sponsored propaganda And that's when one man began to expand His theories of inferiority and spread it like a virus So Jews were enclosed in ghettoes completely frozen from contact Beyond that flat where fifteen people slept back to back Where liberty and property were stolen On the grounds that Jews were the chosen scapegoats So oats were torn and the horns sounded As the hatred rose from town to town the world was astounded That the Nazis would treat some citizens so ruthless But without documented proof the accusations were toothless And since the persecuted were Jewish The world watched and did nothing See hate was fanned into obsession Obsessed by the extermination of a nation founded by religion So a nation created in fear and xenophobia Proceeded to eliminate sanction by the state But bullets were too expensive and didn't kill fast enough Plus the mass graves made it hard to deny The use of slaves digging their own graves So science was used and compounds were created To make the killing less anticipated and more efficient A pesticide called Zyklon B was used To see hundreds of strangers into the gas chambers Which they were told were the showers The children, women, and elderly must have been smelly Cause immediately upon entry they were all sent to the showers So the world watched and somebody had to know That six million Jews went to camp and just didn't come home As I stare down the tracks Where trains packed humans in cattle cars behind steel bars The motto of this camp attracts my eye, it says: "Arbeit Macht Frei" Meaning "Work will make you free" but all those who died inside Probably never saw the irony This place had an evil feeling as we roamed building to building Sights before my eyes, each one the less appealing A room piled to the ceiling with gold filling teeth The next filled with shaved human hair Soon to become some German chair and plush sofa Suffocating stench as I clench my teeth, for what I reached next: I saw ten huge chimneys burning gas, Jews to ashes A whole section dedicated to storing glasses Confiscated from the dead for resale I felt frail and had to leave this hell or be consumed by its spell I've long since left but I consider it my duty To bring this tragedy to the attention of a country Who pats itself on the back for helping in the occupation And bring freedom to a federation of the oppressed But Canada must be undressed Its dirty laundry put to rest Our country frowned on the slaughter, perpetrated A crime so anti-human we were all left exasperated but it faded over time And if you think Denmark smelled rotten soon our feelings weren't forgotten But I will never forget that this nation did nothing And when our government feigned sadness they must have been bluffing Cause before and during the war all the way into the fifties Canada's immigration policy was just as clear as any: One Jew is one Jew too many So how can we condemn when we had a chance To open up our arms and give our home to the survivors? Instead we gave the red carpet to ex-Nazi storm riders Whose record checks seemed to have been forgotten At the border in the disorder Why do you think we still keep finding out The Nazis are our neighbors fifty years later? Ask me if I think we should've done more It's all said and done with now so what the fuck for? My task and all I ask is that you never forget Cause those who forget: history will repeat it The Nazis were defeated yet the lies live on and spawn In the ignorance of those whose motives reap it And claim death counts were made up as if we needed to exaggerate But I saw how hate could make right-thinking people deviate When they create excuses for the nooses and reasons for the bleeding But nothing made as much sense as "Seeing is believing" I can't stop crying This isn't human Only illusion, but I'm trying What I saw will defy Too many dead to identify Cities disappear and whole families die So when you deny, spreading lies my mind burns with the pictures left behind Please look inside my eye and tell six million Earth citizens why All I want to know is how the hell can you deny? How the hell can you deny? How the hell can you deny? How the hell can you deny...