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Paul Weller had been reading “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski, survivor of both Auschwitz and Dachau.
Daniel Rachel’s book “Isle of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters” quotes Weller on this song: “In amongst all this fucking degradation and disgraceful human...
I close my eyes - I reach out my hand
And there you are - beautiful in scabs
Caressing my scalp - under the mounts of the gun towers
I shout your name - I kick out in dreams
And here we are - the searchlight beams
The siren squeals - and hopeless shuffle to certainty
The crab lice bite - the typhoid smells
And I still here - handsome in rags
A trouserless man - waiting helpless for dignity
Come to me angel, don't go to the showers
Beg, steal or borrow - now there's nothing left to take
Except eternity
And who will come - to flower our graves?
With us still here - covered with dust
Remembered by few but forgotten by the majority
Stay with me angel - don't get lost in history
Don't let all we suffered lose it's meaning in the dark
That we call memory
Ghosts of Dachau was written by Paul Weller.
Ghosts of Dachau was produced by Paul Weller.