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Schema

Prime Levi 10 January 1946
Music Koppel Halshtok 2008

You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening
To find hot food and friendly faces (2)

Consider whether this is a man
Who labors in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
who dies at a yes or a no (2)
Consider whether this is a woman
Without hair or name
With no strength to remember
Eyes empty and womb cold
As a frog in winter (2)

Consider that this has been (4)
I commend these words to you (3)
Engrave them on your hearts
When you are in your house
When you walk on your way
When you go to bed
When you rise (2)
Repeat them to your children
Or may your house crumble
Disease render you powerless
Your offspring avert their faces from you (3)

I sing this song to my friends on holocaust's memorial days.