The barb-wired perspective cut the evidence down
to a promise
Self-imposed but unretained
The trial maybe left this place in even-handed state
But silence somehow woke me up again
We see helplessness stuttering a plea. Concealing
participation. Keeping focussed down
The witnesses are disappearing
Their memories getting buried in the ground
The witnesses are disappearing
Taking all the secrets
to a place we cannot claim yet to be found
The reproduction of a name revealing
the unconceivable misdeed
For a short time emotions hit the ceiling
Then we forget the point again
Simon said
remember
Simon's dead
That's more than 60 years of nightmares
And finally a well-deserved repose
60 years of chasing perpetrators in disguise
A lifespan of insisting to oppose
But time is taking over now
to cloud the reasons for resistance
Resistance!
Considered inappropriate?
Resistance's
treated like crime
Still defamed
Fill in time
Fill in name

And silence came the stern reply
Get repaid
for things we can never compensate
Another lesson
the past has taught us
And that the future desperately needs
Another lesson
the past has taught us
Another lesson
the future will need
Another lesson
the past has taught us
the past has taught us