Adrian Snell - Terezin

Adrian Snell - Terezin (Reading: Jeremiah 31:15 NIV Text by Hanus Hachenburg b. 1929 - d. 1944 Auschwitz). From 'Song Of An Exile', recorded at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Israel on 25th August 1994. Adrian Snell (Keyboards & Vocals), David Fitzgerald (Saxophones, Flutes & Whistles), Caroline Bonnett (Percusssion & Vocals), Richard Ayal Frieden (Interpretive Dance & Movement), Dave Bainbridge
(Additional Programming & Sequencing).

Terezin - Hanus Hachenburg

That bit of filth in dirty walls,
And all around barbed wire,
And thirty-thousand souls who sleep
Who once will wake
And once will see
Their own blood spilled.

I was once a little child,
Three years ago
That child who longed for other worlds.
But now I am no more a child
For I have learned to hate.
I am a grown-up person now
I have known fear

Bloody words and a dead day then,
That's something different than bogie men!
But anyway, I'll still believe I only sleep today.

That I'll wake up a child again,
And start to laugh & play,
I'll go back to childhood sweet like a briar rose.
Like a bell which wakes us from a dream,
Like a mother with an ailing child
Loves him with an aching woman's love.

How tragic, then, is youth which lives
With enemies, with gallows ropes.
How tragic, then, for children on your lap
To say: this for the good, that for the bad.

Somewhere, far away out there,
Childhood sweetly sleeps.
Along that path among the trees,
There o'er that house,
And there my mother gave me birth into this world
So I could weep...

In the flame of candles, by my bed, I sleep
And once again perhaps I'll understand
That I was such a little thing,
As little as this song.

These thirty-thousand souls who sleep
Among the trees will wake,
Open an eye,
And because they see a lot
They'll fall asleep again.

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[aerycksmusic]

Like a hell which wakes us from a dream - should read - Like a bell which wakes us from a dream.  These videos are so special. Blessings to all who made this possible and to the Lord God.

[jend99]

many thanks for uploading this!