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9​/​11

from Dissidentica by Lilou & John

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"9/11" is a journey from the gas chambers of World War II, to the concentration camps of Siberia and the terrorist attack at World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. The backbeat guitar was used to create an catchy wrapping for the tragic text. The chorus was originally intended as a lament but Lilou's voice turned it into a more powerful accusation against anyone who hides behind ideology to commit murder. It is in a way an attempt to understand a moralizing humanist attitude that - as sympathetic as it may seem - in some cases can prevent deeper understanding of the ideas behind genocide.

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You closed the door to the chamber where everything stops
You turned on the gas with the hands you stole from the savior
You let a smirk crawl up like an angel past your cheekbone
When you heard the news that Warsau lost to Konigsberg

But did you not for once just wonder
Oh God what have I done

You knew right from wrong you said and raped the pale young woman
Then you watched her die in a mass grave in Kolyma
Her hands lost their grip on a baby clinging to her
They turned into ice as you saw the winter come

But did you not for once just wonder
Oh God what have I done

You boarded the plane with the smile of a school child
Sat next to an eight year old girl from Iowa
Then you and your brothers took control of the airplane
Heard the screams in panic as you saw New York

But did you not for once just wonder
Oh God what have I done

But did you not for once just wonder
Oh God what have I done

But did you not for once just wonder

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from Dissidentica, released April 7, 2017

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