In my mind, I think it's about the Holocaust. Like a survivor telling his son of it.
take for example.
"We are the angry and the desperate,"
"The hungry, and the cold,"
"We are the ones who kept quiet,"
"And always did what we were told."
Basic description of those in concentration camps.
Then:
So open your eyes child,
Lets be on our way.
Broken windows and ashes
Are guiding the way.
Broken Glass = Kristallnacht, Ashes = Human ashes
And as for the parts like the chorus, I think it's the fathers interpitation of anger towards the Nazi's, maybe the people who pretended that claimed that they didn't know and tried to show him pity.
In my mind, I think it's about the Holocaust. Like a survivor telling his son of it. take for example.
"We are the angry and the desperate," "The hungry, and the cold," "We are the ones who kept quiet," "And always did what we were told."
Basic description of those in concentration camps.
Then:
So open your eyes child, Lets be on our way. Broken windows and ashes Are guiding the way.
Broken Glass = Kristallnacht, Ashes = Human ashes
And as for the parts like the chorus, I think it's the fathers interpitation of anger towards the Nazi's, maybe the people who pretended that claimed that they didn't know and tried to show him pity.
Thats my opinion.
I completely agree with you. It's what I thought at first too when I read the lyrics to the song.
I completely agree with you. It's what I thought at first too when I read the lyrics to the song.