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Lyrics for My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Covers | | Track: | My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 53 | | | | Lyrics: | My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg
And when the trials were held there
nineteen years ago
It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame
For the
horrors that the world did undergo
A short while later when I applied to be a G. I. bride
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An American consular official questioned me
He refused my exit permit, said my answers
did not show
I'd learned my lesson about responsibility.
Thus suddenly I was
forced to start thinking on this theme
And when later I was permitted to emigrate
I
must have been asked a hundred times where I was and what I did
In those years when Hitler
ruled our state
I said I was a child or at most a teen-ager
But that only extended the
questioning
They'd ask, where were my parents, my father, my mother
And to this I
could answer not a thing.
The seed planted there at Nuremberg in 1947
Started
to sprout and to grow
Gradually I understood what that verdict meant to me
When there
are crimes that I can see and I can know
And now I also know what it is to be charged with
mass guilt
Once in a lifetime is enough for me
No, I could not take it for a second
time
And that is why I am here today.
The events of May 25th, the day of our
protest,
Put a small balance weight on the other side
Hopefully, someday my
contribution to peace
Will help just a bit to turn the tide
And perhaps I can tell my
children six
And later on their own children
That at least in the future they need not
be silent
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