I Will Never Forget

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Originally Posted by QuantumJo

Never Forget

Peter Hammill 's song lyrics

Primo * on the Parapet from His CD The Noise 1993 Rockport records

* Primo Levi, born 1919 ,italian jew,chemical engineer,resistant, survivor of Auschwitz 's hell,
after being retired of industry world, he spent his time writing until his controversial death on April 11, 1987, in the apartment where he was born and took up residence.
Falling to his death from the railing of his third-floor stairwell, the question of whether he committed suicide or was victim of an unwanted accident is still open to debate



To crawl on hollowed ground without a map
to walk on hollow legs, leaving no footprints
to drift like a ghost through the quarters of lost desire
breathing underwater,
still running through the fire.

Four horsemen drive the coach of Holocaust home;
and with what sense of history do we view our bright new world.
with the video nasty blasting through the set
of our next door neighbour ?
Do we learn to forget ? Do we learn just to forget?

And raw barbarity sleeps, spore in soil ?
and no-one's an innocent, no-one's entirely immune...
Oh, still we wait for a saviour, there are no saints as yet.
Just that gilt badge of survival,
we learn to forget,

The blindest eye is turn on the beast we clothe,
drab in the uniform of silent acquiescence.
I'll raise the toast to Primo, climbing up upon the parapet
with one final word of caution :
we must learn not to forget.

There's pain in rememberance,
but we must learn not to forget.

Here's a toast to Primo
let's learn not to forget

Here's a toast to Primo
forgive but don't forget

Here's a toast to Primo
let's learn not to forget

One last word of caution
from the very rim of the parapet
One last word of rememberance...
we must learn not to forget .