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about

This song is a fictionalized abstraction of a piece of my family's history. In the early to mid 1900s there were many instances of violent attacks on Jewish communities in Europe, in countries such as Russia, Germany, Poland and Austria-Hungary. These violent and deadly acts were known as pogroms, which in Russian, pogrom, means "to wreak havoc, to demolish violently"

It was during one of these pogroms when my Great Grandfather and his brother fled Austria-Hungary with hopes of swimming across a river-border to Switzerland. My Great Grandfather luckily made it safely across. His brother, however was not as fortunate and drowned during the escape.

This song is based loosely on that occurrence and is very different than my usual song. I hope you enjoy.

Photo credit - US Holocaust Memorial Museum - www.ushmm.org

lyrics

All night long, western bound, hunted down.
Hide your face out of sight until night.
Now you wait for your chance to escape.

Anywhere you hide, they'll find you.
Anything you try reminds you.
Over turbid water; all along the border,
hoping they won't drown you, on the night they found you.

What's the last sacred vow that you spoke?
Can you name all the rules that you broke?
Never see to the sky after they blindfolded your eyes.
Memories turn into dust after your handcuffs started to rust.

credits

from Come & Gone, released June 21, 2014
Anthony Stubelek - Guitar / Vocal / Bass / Recording
Mitchell Benton - Drums

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