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Deny Lyrics

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So this is war, more blood poured from the fountain<br />
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As I'm counting on the cold hand<br />
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Of those that abstain and demand<br />
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More ground gained from the crosses that we follow into battle<br />
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I swallow in the whole Earth rattle<br />
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It was all too real from the moment that I peeled<br />
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My steel cap back<br />
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And saw the black knife fade into first light<br />
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Some fat balding man had the clever insight<br />
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That might makes right so under infrared sight<br />
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We steadily advance<br />
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I raised from my crouched stance<br />
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As boards marked the time I danced through lines of dead men<br />
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Who've been forever left behind and lie with their own kind<br />
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But I turn my mind off, desensitizing<br />
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I find myself surmising on how I can plant my flag upon the horizon<br />
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So glory finds me and I can be<br />
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history's first living soul on the beaches of Normandy<br />
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And slay me a thousand Germans<br />
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Cause revenge is burning hot as pistol shot and I can smell bodies<br />
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Rotting on both sides of the divide but the tide of the battle has turned<br />
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The good guys have returned<br />
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So we succeed in the beachhead but success is relative<br />
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Relatively high numbers of dead blood stained human remains<br />
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But the Nazis fled so we advance into France<br />
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We meet the underground resistance behind enemy lines, making good distance<br />
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At the insistence of our leaders<br />
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we follow up on every lead, even a tree can be a trap<br />
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But one look at the map showed the Germans were withdrawing<br />
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Citizens were applauding<br />
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as they plotted how to pay back the citizen assassins<br />
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We started liberating towns to the ticker-tape tirades<br />
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Of humans too tired to wage war anymore<br />
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It looked like war had but a few months left before we could all rest<br />
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And go home to our families<br />
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But then we heard rumor of a place<br />
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Where an entire human race was taken and laid to waste<br />
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A camp where crazed experiments take place<br />
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And rows of corpses overflowed mass graves<br />
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There were things to be seen and turn you to burn inside<br />
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The soldiers were told to see with their own eyes<br />
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So I went to see it so I could explain without laying blame<br />
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History's made a name of stories so I will call it as I see it<br />
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I see fit to record it so the truth cannot be distorted<br />
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But I must warn you, truth is cold<br />
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Souls stolen from right under the skin<br />
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A prison where inmates' fate was wrapped and lay<br />
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The feat past the gates and doctors decided<br />
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Whether you were pesticide-ed or provided with a tattoo used to ID you<br />
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When death from exposure overcame you<br />
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So I walked past the gates and saw plain brick buildings<br />
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And then the real world faded<br />
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&quot;I hated every breath:&quot; the words to express what I saw when Auschwitz fell<br />
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A living hell, you couldn't tell<br />
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The living dead from the skeletons enveloped in this valley of death<br />
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The stink of charred flesh made my breath catch<br />
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We couldn't match the millions<br />
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of dead civilians to what we had believed to be humans<br />
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&quot;How could this happen?&quot; I asked my captain and for a moment<br />
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This proponent of atonement just shook his head<br />
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Cause it was best left unsaid<br />
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But being Jewish on the other side of the divide meant I knew my history<br />
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Without having to face its wrath<br />
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The path of six million goes way beyond the math<br />
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*I can't understand the way you feel*<br />
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See Poland fell first and Jews were the first to feel it<br />
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Herded into units by perverted Germans who used their loose liberties<br />
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To sexually abuse and misuse in full view of the camera<br />
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But it never made the news<br />
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Cause most Poles agreed that all Jews were infected<br />
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They infested every stock-invested bank<br />
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And every government think-tank had at least a Jew or two<br />
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So who am I to play the fall guy?<br />
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When I cast my eye on the neighbor's grass<br />
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where it's truly greener on the other side<br />
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I must confide that I hate Jews just about as much as the Germans do<br />
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So when the burning smoke chokes out the air and all I smell is burning hair<br />
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I'll turn a blind eye and comply<br />
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With every single lie that you make us recite so we won't ask any questions<br />
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I'm just an average citizen<br />
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See many Europeans felt that Jews were just pollution<br />
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A problem finally solved by the Final Solution<br />
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Where Communists, Jews, gypsies, and handicapped queers<br />
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All became the target of irrational fears<br />
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fed by the flames of state-sponsored propaganda<br />
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And that's when one man began to expand<br />
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his theories of inferiority and spread it like a virus<br />
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So Jews were enclosed in ghettoes completely frozen from contact<br />
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Beyond that flat where fifteen people slept back to back<br />
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Where liberty and property were stolen<br />
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On the grounds that Jews were the chosen scapegoats<br />
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So oats were torn and the horns sounded<br />
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As the hatred rose from town to town the world was astounded<br />
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That the Nazis would treat some citizens so ruthless<br />
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But without documented proof the accusations were toothless<br />
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And since the persecuted were Jewish<br />
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The world watched and did nothing<br />
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See hate was fanned into obsession<br />
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Obsessed by the extermination of a nation founded by religion<br />
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So a nation created in fear and xenophobia<br />
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proceeded to eliminate sanction by the state<br />
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But bullets were too expensive and didn't kill fast enough<br />
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Plus the mass graves made it hard to deny<br />
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the use of slaves digging their own graves<br />
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So science was used and compounds were created<br />
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to make the killing less anticipated and more efficient<br />
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A pesticide called Zyklon B was used<br />
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to see hundreds of strangers into the gas chambers<br />
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Which they were told were the showers<br />
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The children, women, and elderly must have been smelly<br />
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Cause immediately upon entry they were all sent to the showers<br />
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So the world watched and somebody had to know<br />
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That six million Jews went to camp and just didn't come home<br />
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As I stare down the tracks<br />
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where trains packed humans in cattle cars behind steel bars<br />
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The motto of this camp attracts my eye, it says: &quot;Arbeit Macht Frei&quot;<br />
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Meaning &quot;Work will make you free&quot; but all those who died inside<br />
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Probably never saw the irony<br />
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This place had an evil feeling as we roamed building to building<br />
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Sights before my eyes, each one the less appealing<br />
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A room piled to the ceiling with gold filling teeth<br />
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The next filled with shaved human hair<br />
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Soon to become some German chair and plush sofa<br />
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Suffocating stench as I clench my teeth, for what I reached next:<br />
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I saw ten huge chimneys burning gas, Jews to ashes<br />
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A whole section dedicated to storing glasses<br />
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confiscated from the dead for resale<br />
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I felt frail and had to leave this hell or be consumed by its spell<br />
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I've long since left but I consider it my duty<br />
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To bring this tragedy to the attention of a country<br />
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Who pats itself on the back for helping in the occupation<br />
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And bring freedom to a federation of the oppressed<br />
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but Canada must be undressed<br />
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Its dirty laundry put to rest<br />
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Our country frowned on the slaughter, perpetrated<br />
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A crime so anti-human we were all left exasperated but it faded over time<br />
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And if you think Denmark smelled rotten soon our feelings weren't forgotten<br />
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But I will never forget that this nation did nothing<br />
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And when our government feigned sadness they must have been bluffing<br />
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Cause before and during the war all the way into the fifties<br />
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Canada's immigration policy was just as clear as any:<br />
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One Jew is one Jew too many<br />
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So how can we condemn when we had a chance<br />
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To open up our arms and give our home to the survivors?<br />
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Instead we gave the red carpet to ex-Nazi storm riders<br />
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Whose record checks seemed to have been forgotten<br />
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at the border in the disorder<br />
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Why do you think we still keep finding out<br />
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the Nazis are our neighbors fifty years later?<br />
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Ask me if I think we should've done more<br />
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It's all said and done with now so what the fuck for?<br />
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My task and all I ask is that you never forget<br />
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Cause those who forget: history will repeat it<br />
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The Nazis were defeated yet the lies live on and spawn<br />
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In the ignorance of those whose motives reap it<br />
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And claim death counts were made up as if we needed to exaggerate<br />
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But I saw how hate could make right-thinking people deviate<br />
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When they create excuses for the nooses and reasons for the bleeding<br />
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But nothing made as much sense as &quot;Seeing is believing&quot;<br />
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I can't stop crying<br />
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This isn't human<br />
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Only illusion, but I'm trying<br />
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What I saw will defy<br />
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Too many dead to identify<br />
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Cities disappear and whole families die<br />
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So when you deny, spreading lies my mind burns with the pictures left behind<br />
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Please look inside my eye and tell six million Earth citizens why<br />
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All I want to know is how the hell can you deny?<br />
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How the hell can you deny?How the hell can you deny?<br />
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How the hell can you deny...