A Place Between

from Skyless Countries by Trio - 2016

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Hate knows no frontiers, neither racial nor ethnic ... Elie Wiesel

This is the first of three songs in the cycle "World War II Handbook".

LINKS: www.holocaustcentre.org.nz; www.genocidescholars.org; www.ushmm.org

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I ain’t nobody special don’t come in a suit
Have little to show still paying dues
War is a crime as is to rob a child
Of a right to live with so much love to give

The zigs and the zags were coming for me
Was a wint’ry day and it wasn’t a dream
I was marched through the gates where a string quartet
Played perfect tones for the walking dead

If your down on your luck don’t expect very much
You can find me in a place between

You know those chimneys blow the hopes of ghosts
And in the ashen heaps rats are gatherin’ teeth
They’ll scour the ground and scorch the earth
Leavin’ open wounds where richness once stood

So they came and they left behind iron gates
A carbon trace and the stench of death
Among the skins and bones, two eyes were blinkin’
I thought I could hear what the dyin’ were thinkin’

After all of this I then understood
The subject of hate in a rotten world
War is a crime as is to rob a child
Of a right to live with so much love to give

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from Skyless Countries, released January 27, 2016
Yvette - bvs, clarinet; Eamon - bass; Rich - guitar, song

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Richard Leschen Auckland, New Zealand

Post-Americana-Ashkenazi - Acoustic folk-trance - Improvisation

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