Another Anne Frank song:


ANNE FRANK'S EYES
Craig Sonnenfeld - 2005

I gaze into your dark eyes
in a faded photograph,
a picture of a young girl
who's forgotten how to laugh,

taken right before the night fell,
and the boots marched by your door,
taken right before the blood ran
and they still demanded more

how confused were you when old friends
turned against you with their lies,

and how I wish I could have saved
just a single tear
from Anne Frank's eyes.

you hid up in the secret rooms
above your father's shop,
and tried to keep believing
the insanity would stop

well, how'd you stay so quiet
with the hellhounds on your trail,
and how'd you stay so hopeful
that you'd live to tell the tale,

'though you wanted to let out a scream
it would have been unwise

how I wish I could have saved
just a single tear
from Anne Frank's eyes.

after two long years of loneliness
in your cold attic cell
the boots came crashing through the walls
and they sent you all to hell

where you lived in quiet defiance
but just briefly while you could
'til your life gave out beneath the
weight of a ravaged childhood.

now, can you forgive us fools who dwell
under somber skies.

oh, how I wish I could have saved
just a single tear
from Anne Frank's eyes.