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By Bread Alone

from The Final Chapter by Dawn of Oblivion

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Already when we started working on this song we knew it was going to be about the Holocaust and the atrocities that took place during the second world war. The lyrics are inspired by the book with the same name by Mel Mermelstein, a survivor in Auschwitz concentration camp.

lyrics

Lyrics:

The crematory, the pits of fire
A home in the graveyard, how did I survive?

Now listen, even if you understood what it meant
Running around, perhaps looking sideways sometimes
Listening to pleasant music in between lines
But there’s a haunting memory bound to remain
You will understand how it felt
Standing out in the cold rain with the doors closed around you
The warmth of the fireplace out of reach
Without raincoats and wind chilling down the spine
Waiting for 10 minutes, an hour, 10 hours even a whole day

We were put into a crowd and assembled rapidly around the gate
With clubs in our hands we forced the gate by the Demon
With the whip in one hand and the pistol in the other
By the Demon’s command we rallied against the mob
Shouting in order to disperse and to leave
It was a reckless and sickening pursuit
I saw a glimpse of my mother’s younger sister
Just like the others she’d come to look for family and relatives
Run, run I cried again and again
Don’t get caught, you must go back!

CHORUS:
I watch my sisters, my Mom
They stand in line for the crematory
By bread alone
A dance macabre for the musselmen
In the pits of fire
By bread alone
A name of numbers in a barbed wire world
A home in the graveyard
By bread alone
Six million families torn to pieces
Why did I survive?
By bread alone

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from The Final Chapter, released September 1, 2009
Music: Fradera/Nilsson/Rosqvist
Lyrics: Fradera

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