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The song says you were
"like a calf with a mournful eye"
the cars you rode in called
"cattle cars."
We accept that.
We are wrong.
We pay tribute to those
who didn't fight back
who couldn't fight back.
What about those who
did?
What of Hannah Senesh
"Eli, Eli,
Sh'lo Yi'gamer L'olam
Hachol v'hayam
Rish rush shel hamayim
B'rock hashamayim
T'filat ha'adam"
Oh Lord, My God,
We pray these things never end
the sand and the sea
the rush of the waters
the crash of the heavens
the prayer of "man"
She wrote these words
And fought for the Hagana
When she was caught, she
continued to fight
They captured her, but she
gave them nothing.
What of Anne Frank
She was just a little girl
hidden inside an attic
She gave up her childhood
but the diary she kept
still proclaimed: "I believe
in the good of man."
On the wall in Cologne
there is more evidence
that nobody just gave in.
We weren't a people like cattle
They hid when they couldn't
fight back.
Even in hiding, one believed:
"in the sun
even when
it is not
shining
I believe
in love
when feeling
it not
I believe
in God
even in
Silence."
on a wagon bound
for market
there's a calf with a mournful eye
high above him there is a swallow
winging swiftly through the sky
Although we looked as
cattle
we never lost sight
of the bird.
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