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Thread #24697   Message #286380
Posted By: The Shambles
28-Aug-00 - 03:58 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Genocides and Massacres
Subject: Lyr Add: ANOTHER JOURNEY BY TRAIN (Roger Gall)
The song is an account of a UK Channel 4 TV programme, from which the song gets its title. It was the story of four young 'Neo-Nazis', from different European countries, taken on a train journey through Europe. During which they met a number of Holocaust survivors and ended up at Auschwitz.

You may have thought that this would have changed their views a little, but unfortunately, this did not happen. It is a song to be sung to these four and. unfortunately many others.


ANOTHER JOURNEY BY TRAIN

You enter the 'Gates of Hell', and you deny the fires
Stand among the ghosts of thousands, who you brand as liars
Why do you deny it, for you know the truth inside?
It's not a matter of opinion, how these people died

Heads of stone
Hearts of ice
It's only the truth you sacrifice

Five men on the corner, oh how it tears my heart
Alone with his memories, the old man stands apart
You refuse to hear him, for "he doesn't count", you say
Builders of the 'New Tomorrow', does the past get in your way?

Hearts of ice
Heads of stone
So many people, so far from home

One small lady and four big men, a brave thing to do?
A survivor of the 'real thing', what does she have to fear from you?
In the shadow of the tower, she shows you her tattoo
And you have the nerve to tell her, you're now the persecuted few?

Heads of stone
Hearts of ice
It's only the truth you sacrifice

Some of you don't understand, but some understand so well
Frozen hearts will seize your granite minds if you fall under their spell
The world goes through its changes, but some things stay the same
When you know, you can't be wrong, you'll find someone else to blame

Hearts of ice
Heads of stone
So many people, so far from home

Heads of stone
Hearts of ice
It's only the truth you sacrifice

Roger Gall 1995