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Love story in a jewish ghetto | Reviewer: Max | 10/11/08

i still believe that it is a love-story about to develop in a jewish ghetto and later in a concentration camp. there is evidence to be found in the following lines:

1. the german accent in the beginning - to me it is an introduction into the topic

2. Born to multiply, - was the nazi propaganda describing jews as a ''race that only multiplies to crowd out other people such as the germans''

3. Born to gaze into night skies, - unlike other religions, jews did not have a messias. gazing into night skies is an act of waiting for something, in that case their messias.

4. All you wants one more Saturday. - saturday is shabbat, also the day on which the messias should arrive.

5. They gonna buy your life’s time - is a reference to the holocaust to me. although, the nazis did not ''buy'' but took the lifetime of far too many jews.

6. So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
‘Till the day
We come in doing cartwheels - live a ''correct'' jewish lifestyle and the messias will arrive. the day will be celebrated (till the day we come in doing cartwheels).

7. You be damned to be one of us, girl, - if you were jewish in that time, you would have been damned. also, it says that both the lyrical ego and the girl he/she is about to fall in love with are both jewish.

8. You keep them folded in your lap,
Or raise them up to beg for scraps, - people who have to live in such conditions usually pray (folded in your laps) or beg. so the scene propably takes place in a jewish ghetto.

9. You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same. - maybe the entire nazi state is meant here.

10. Will you be pulled from the ocean,
But just a minute too late, - i still believe this line is about the americans, who came too late to liberate europe and the jews.

11. Or changed by a potion,
And find a handsome young mate
For you to love. - to me, ''or changed by a potion'' is a metaphor for living under a different identity to escape

the horrors of the holocaust. and by ''handsome'' is meant ''german'', because otherwise the different identity would not work.

12. You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes, - the girl or person the lyrical ego talks to is being brought into a concentration camp by train. he/she is damned.

13. You know you'd trade your life for any ordinary Joe’s,
Well do it now or grow old. - clearly, sarcasm is used here because if the person does not manage to escape he/she definitely won't grow old.

14. Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold. - nightmares are often about dying or something bad happening. so it is clear to me that whoever the lyrical ego talks to was brought into a concentration camp. there one did not live longer than ''a year or two''.

15. I felt like I should just cry,
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin, - the lyrical ego has lost hope to get out alive and death is certain so he/she won't cry not even under physical suppression.

16. You don't know how long I've been,
Watching the lantern dim,
Starved of oxygen, - in these lines it is not clear, whether the lyrical ego is addressing the listener or the person (maybe the girl) who just came into the concentration camp. but it is certain that the lantern is a metaphor for the jewish people in the concentration camp who are slowly dying. the lantern dims because it ''starves of oxygen'', means the people are being killed in the gas chambers.

17. So give me your hand,
And let's jump out the window. - this is the last invitation to a self-determined action. the lyrical ego and the girl are refusing to die the way they are forced to (which is an act of rebellion) but because death is inevitable they chose to end their lifes on their own to be together in death (mustn't necessarily be jumping out of the window).

;)

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