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perpetrators-bystanders-victims - yezterdae - jeremy andrews lyrics

[intro: *conspiracy sample*]
“we will not sterilize every jew and wait for them to die. we will not sterilize every jew and then exterminate the race. that’s farcical. dead men don’t hump, dead women don’t get pregnant. death is the most reliable form of sterilization, put it that way.”
“‘60,000 each day.’
‘yes it will be industrial in nature, large commercial gas*fed ovens, no residue to speak of.’
‘60,000 jews every day, go up in smoke. we can achieve that. imagine.’”

[verse 1: jeremy andrews]
who am i, a rich man, am i a vagrant?
am i a murderer? am i a rapist?
a s*d*st? i’m not a s*d*st, i’m your neighbors
a genocidal club of the above fore*mentioned flavors
sunken inside your governments, uncovering your hatreds
advocate the basest and most racist accusations
awkwardly, intentional, functional or probably
the man atop of the bureaucracy and every n*z* see
i’m hitler, i’m himmler, i’m goering, i’m goebbels
i’m heydrich, eichmann, and warring’s my purpose
i’m stangl, höss, i’m rosenberg and ribbentrop
k!lled six million people for believing of a different god
but not just top*down, bottom*up too
i’m a guy who shot jews with my einsatzgruppe
a pistol*shooting product of the hitler*jugend
i was raised on antisemitism, n0body will miss the juden
i’m a doctor on the tiergartenstrasse
i’m the guy who drove the van when they was testing out gassing
i’m a guard at treblinka, sobibor or majdanek
at belzec or birkenau, provoke you more and you panic
i could be austrian, an insane romanian
a goose*stepping latvian, an unnamed ukrainian
i’m a war criminal, i’m pitiful or crazy and
a perpetrator is the category that you place me in
[interlude: *schindler’s list samples*]
“they come into our house, and tell us we don’t live there anymore”
“‘it is not my task to interfere with the processes that take place’”
“‘you are just scared’”
“‘people die, it’s a fact of life, he wants to k!ll everybody, what am i supposed to do about it?’
‘oh you’re losing money’
‘no i’m not losing money, that’s not the point’
‘that’s not the point*’
‘it’s dangerous, it’s dangerous to me, what do you want me to do about it?”
“i’ve done all i can”
“i didn’t do enough”

[verse 2: jeremy andrews]
now who am i? am i a nation?
am i a person? am i complacent?
i lived adjacent to the camps jews were placed in
and looked the other way while they erased ‘em
i try to ignore but violence and gore is right at my door
like i could ignore the smoke rising high in the morn
i’m every country that refused the st. louis because they were jewish
repugnantly ghoulish, irreparably foolish
it ain’t my fault, i think the führer’s insane
but that i say gets blurring ease the specificity pains
and when they came for the jews and the socialists and communists
that wasn’t me, so i didn’t speak out, ominous
but i‘m a catholic and after this they trying harming us
now there’s no one left to speak for me and keep me off the trucks
my neighbor let some jews hide on his farm
my wife wanted me to help but i was frightened of harm
with rifles and arms, the ss lights a big barn
last thing i heard was kids screaming, crying for mom
the silence ‘til dawn, it’s like i’m living in a nightmare
the star of david is the harbinger of death here
my inaction, is it wrong or it’s right?
i try to justify it by the sound of bombs every night
i try and call myself a victim ‘cause we all in this fight
but i just stood by, through colossal lossage of life
[interlude 2: *samples*]
“it was a different world, antisemitism was very bad”
“thousands were used as slave labor in german and polish factories. others became victims of mobile k!lling squads”
“there were rumors but uh, we couldn’t believe it”
“n0body spoke to us, n0body called us by our name. we were kicked, we were pushed, and we were numbers, we were not people”
“and uh, someone asked, ‘when can i go see my father?’ and he pointed to the chimneys, said ‘you see that smoke? now you can see him’”

[verse 3: jeremy andrews]
now who am i, murdered and cold?
i’m an innocent, burned in this inferno of souls
i‘m several million stories that deserve to be told
am i a czech, a hungarian, a german, a pole?
a galitzianer, a litvak, a russian p.o.w.?
a g*y man, a gypsy, what have i done to trouble you?
trapped in this crucible, life is so hazardous
i was sent to buchenwald, my wife sent to ravensbrück
got worked to death or shot not working fast enough
i died screaming in the back of a gassing truck
went in the ghettos with thousands of jews
we heard things that we doubted they’d do
i served on the judenrat for housing and food
like cziernakóv in warsaw, rumkowski in łódź
they came, my village torched in the night
i was, taken in trains, i was forced to comply
then i arrived at auschwitz, tortured in fright
i saw my kids taken left while i’m forced to the right
a sonderkommando is where i’ve been thrown
they make us dispose of the evidence so
it’s been burned in my eyes all this h*ll i been shown
but i can’t describe how awful is the smell of it though
i‘m the, handful who lived on to tell of the shoah
and i’m a couple million names that’ll never be known

- jeremy andrews lyrics

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