Holocaust Playlist
HOLOCAUST PLAYLIST
None of these songs is actualy about the Holocaust, but many are about war and loss and struggles with God and refusing to give up hope. I chose them really carefully, because since the retreat I've had a lot on my mind, and I don't know, this seemed like a good idea. Of course, the Holocaust is a touchy subject, and I hope no-one is offended by the fact that these songs were written about other things.
The first song is about today's Jewry (for the purposes of this playlist):
My Chemical Romance // Welcome to the Black Parade
This song inspired the whole playlist, because I was telling my mother about the story of one of the survivors that spoke to us on the week and then I turned on the radio and Gerard went "Through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets; when you're gone we want you all to know we'll carry on, we'll carry on. Though you're dead and gone, believe me, your memory will carry on." And if that isn't a fucking powerful message to B'nai Yisrael, I don't know what is.
The following songs are concerning the people in the ghettos or concentration camps (where families were spilt up) or death camps (where often people knew they were going to their deaths).
Arcade Fire // Intervention
Ignore the part about "working for the Church" and the rest is horrifyingly accurate. "I can taste the fear / Lift me up and take me out of here / Don't wanna fight, don't wanna die / Just wanna hear you cry." Full lyrics here, because you should read them.
My Chemical Romance // The Ghost of You
Yeah, there's like three My Chem songs on this playlist, but they fit. This one's disturbing because it's actually about war- the "never coming home" bit gets me every time. The verses kind of suck balls, but the lyrics are moving and the chorus/bridge are just- chilling. The video is about WWI, but it's worth a look. "And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me / For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me..."
Solomon Burke // None of Us Are Free
"Well you better listen my sister's and brothers / 'Cause if you do you can hear /T here are voices still calling across the years." It's actually a really hopeful song, despite the title- but that just shows the level of desperation, you know?
Rent // Will I?
"Will I lose my dignity? / Will some care? / Will I wake tomorrow from / This nightmare?" Always powerful. Many Jews refused to lose their dignity and chose to be shot immediately rather than lick a Nazi's boots or crawl on the ground or whatever else the guards wanted to make them do- Instead, they chose to quietly say the Shema ("Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" - "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad"), which is the last thing a Jew is supposed to say before death.
The Decemberists // 16 Military Wives
I don't think I'm capable of making a playlist that doesn't have at least one song off of Picaresque. But the point is: The government aspect of this war was disgraceful. America didn't get involved until Pearl Harbour; Canada turned refugees away, saying about the Jews: "None is too many." The Allies could have bombed the train tracks leading to Auchwitz and halted the shipments of prisoners sent there to be gassed (the Nazis stepped it up in the final months of the war) and they didn't- They had full knowledge of the mass murders, and they chose to do nothing. It's disgusting. "Seventeen company men / Out of which only twelve will make it back again." It's a song about the greedy big-shots back home who make the decisions while the soldiers die on the front.
Marilyn Manson // The Love Song
About the Nazis, and the gentiles that aided them, and the nation pride that fueled ten million deaths. "Do you love your guns? Yeah! God? Yeah! Government? ...Fuck yeah!"
And the cures:
The Used & My Chemical Romance // Under Pressure
I like it better than the original, okay? The important thing is the message ("Why don't be give love one more chance?"), and the haunting passages about "Watching some good friends scream 'Let me out.'"
Bad Religion // Sorrow
"Will you guide me now for I can't see / a reason for the suffering and this long misery." The mention of the Messiah is interesting.
And finally:
Seal // Prayer for the Dying
"Forceful aging / Help me I'm fading / Heaven's waiting / It's time to move on. "
The end.
None of these songs is actualy about the Holocaust, but many are about war and loss and struggles with God and refusing to give up hope. I chose them really carefully, because since the retreat I've had a lot on my mind, and I don't know, this seemed like a good idea. Of course, the Holocaust is a touchy subject, and I hope no-one is offended by the fact that these songs were written about other things.
The first song is about today's Jewry (for the purposes of this playlist):
My Chemical Romance // Welcome to the Black Parade
This song inspired the whole playlist, because I was telling my mother about the story of one of the survivors that spoke to us on the week and then I turned on the radio and Gerard went "Through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets; when you're gone we want you all to know we'll carry on, we'll carry on. Though you're dead and gone, believe me, your memory will carry on." And if that isn't a fucking powerful message to B'nai Yisrael, I don't know what is.
The following songs are concerning the people in the ghettos or concentration camps (where families were spilt up) or death camps (where often people knew they were going to their deaths).
Arcade Fire // Intervention
Ignore the part about "working for the Church" and the rest is horrifyingly accurate. "I can taste the fear / Lift me up and take me out of here / Don't wanna fight, don't wanna die / Just wanna hear you cry." Full lyrics here, because you should read them.
My Chemical Romance // The Ghost of You
Yeah, there's like three My Chem songs on this playlist, but they fit. This one's disturbing because it's actually about war- the "never coming home" bit gets me every time. The verses kind of suck balls, but the lyrics are moving and the chorus/bridge are just- chilling. The video is about WWI, but it's worth a look. "And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me / For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me..."
Solomon Burke // None of Us Are Free
"Well you better listen my sister's and brothers / 'Cause if you do you can hear /T here are voices still calling across the years." It's actually a really hopeful song, despite the title- but that just shows the level of desperation, you know?
Rent // Will I?
"Will I lose my dignity? / Will some care? / Will I wake tomorrow from / This nightmare?" Always powerful. Many Jews refused to lose their dignity and chose to be shot immediately rather than lick a Nazi's boots or crawl on the ground or whatever else the guards wanted to make them do- Instead, they chose to quietly say the Shema ("Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" - "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad"), which is the last thing a Jew is supposed to say before death.
The Decemberists // 16 Military Wives
I don't think I'm capable of making a playlist that doesn't have at least one song off of Picaresque. But the point is: The government aspect of this war was disgraceful. America didn't get involved until Pearl Harbour; Canada turned refugees away, saying about the Jews: "None is too many." The Allies could have bombed the train tracks leading to Auchwitz and halted the shipments of prisoners sent there to be gassed (the Nazis stepped it up in the final months of the war) and they didn't- They had full knowledge of the mass murders, and they chose to do nothing. It's disgusting. "Seventeen company men / Out of which only twelve will make it back again." It's a song about the greedy big-shots back home who make the decisions while the soldiers die on the front.
Marilyn Manson // The Love Song
About the Nazis, and the gentiles that aided them, and the nation pride that fueled ten million deaths. "Do you love your guns? Yeah! God? Yeah! Government? ...Fuck yeah!"
And the cures:
The Used & My Chemical Romance // Under Pressure
I like it better than the original, okay? The important thing is the message ("Why don't be give love one more chance?"), and the haunting passages about "Watching some good friends scream 'Let me out.'"
Bad Religion // Sorrow
"Will you guide me now for I can't see / a reason for the suffering and this long misery." The mention of the Messiah is interesting.
And finally:
Seal // Prayer for the Dying
"Forceful aging / Help me I'm fading / Heaven's waiting / It's time to move on. "
The end.