Silence (Shtilkeit)
From Motty’s album ‘Hasugos’ (ืืฉืืืช). https://album.link/hasugos
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Lyrics:
Wherever I step and step
Wherever I go and go
I hear the pleas
to the point that my ears hurt
Of little people who lie beneath me
Little people – like you and me.
I see the father being dragged away
I see the young boy being burned
I see the sister being beaten
I see the mother with the baby in her hands
Little people – who lie beneath me
Little people – like you and me.
Little people whom no one will know anymore
Little people who no one knows who and where they are.
Pure, innocent souls
Beneath a memorial stone
No name, no image, no remnant of your beauty.
And I cry:
โืืจืฅ ืืจืฅ ืื ืชืืกื ืืื
(Earth, earth, do not cover up their blood)
Do not cover up
Let the bones protrude until they will awaken.
Our past
It cries, it yearns and shouts
You could go deaf from the worldโs most resounding silence.
I donโt know your name
And I donโt know where you’re from
I only know where youโre headed
And I hear how sadly you moan
Little people – who lie beneath me
Little people like you and me.
Itโs not them, itโs me
Itโs now, not then
Itโs not glasses, teeth and shoes
Itโs our nation
Little people – who lie beneath me
Little people – like you and me.
Little people whom no one will know anymore
Little people who no one knows who and where they are.
Pure, innocent souls
Beneath a memorial stone
No name, no image, no remnant of your beauty.
And I cry:
โืืจืฅ ืืจืฅ ืื ืชืืกื ืืื
(Earth, earth, do not cover up their blood)
Do not cover up
Let the bones protrude until they will awaken.
Our past
It cries, it yearns and shouts
You could go deaf from the worldโs most resounding silence.
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Bones, teeth, memorial stones
Of millions who are nameless.
To inquire about it, like we used to
There is almost no one left today.
The atrocities, injustices, that happened yesterday
Wanted to annihilate them too.
The last, esteemed, elders
Oy, who remember the hell.
The little people – whom no one will ever
Whom no one will ever know anymoreโฆ
