Silence

Silence

From the cellar down the halls

Silence

Is running down the walls

Silence

Never sorry when it calls

Doesn't disappear at all

Just rolls up like a ball

Pretending to be small

Then buries you in a fog

The silence

They died inside the death camps

Don't talk about the Jews

We were starving in our country

We Germans suffered too

Though we heard the Jews went somewhere

Did we give our Führer thanks

When he dressed the kids in uniforms

And fed 'em to the tanks

But karma always sends the bill

You can't take nothing back

We knew our homes would be destroyed

We could be sure of that

We learned to live like gypsies

We Germans wandered too

We knew we would pay dearly

For what we did to all the Jews

Silence

From the cellars down the halls

Silence

Is running down the walls

Silence

Never sorry when it calls

Doesn't disappear at all

It just rolls up like a ball

Pretending to be small

Then buries you in a fog

The silence

The silence

School books in the kitchen

History climbs the stairs

TV shows and magazines

It was always in the air

In school we heard about the Jews

And the guilt we had to bear

We paid our reparations

To keep the silence always near

Hitler promised our salvation

Here's to the master race

Children, church and kitchen

He threw it in our face

He put us in his crosshairs

For any battle he could choose

We tried but don't you dare forget

He killed our people too

Then the silence

From the cellar down the halls

Silence