For Sasha-Joan Baez

[ti:For Sasha] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Honest Lullaby] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]For Sasha - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:05.41]Here by my window in Germany [00:10.95]A morning bird flies close to me [00:15.24]On his wing I see a yellow star [00:20.94]The lights are on in the factory [00:25.97]The frost is hung on the linden tree [00:30.39]And I remember where we are [00:37.29] [00:38.01]And I remember the holocaust [00:42.43] [00:43.52]I remember all we lost [00:48.32]The families torn and the borders crossed [00:52.10] [00:52.70]And I sing of it now for Sasha [01:02.01] [01:10.44]A young german solider lies in his bed [01:15.90]Bandages from toe to head [01:20.12]A prisoner of the camps draws nigh [01:25.15]If you are abel and I am cain [01:30.11]Forgive me from my bed of pain [01:34.78]I know not why we die [01:41.77] [01:42.42]It was I who ordered the building burned [01:47.36]The job was over and as I turned [01:52.20]A father and his son [01:56.81] [01:57.31]Caught in the flames high above the ground [02:02.05]From cradled arms the boy looked down [02:06.72]One leap and their lives were done [02:12.77] [02:14.51]And I remember the holocaust [02:19.51]I remember all we lost [02:24.69]The children gone and the borders crossed [02:28.83]And I sing of it now for Sasha [02:38.14] [02:48.89]You in frozen streets of heidelberg [02:53.86]Your youth unbearded takes form in words [02:58.42]And the ghosts of the past are kind [03:03.31]For this was your university [03:08.32]The years were long but the spirits free [03:12.63]And your river runs to the rhine [03:18.87] [03:20.21]The smoke filled taverns that you once roamed [03:25.11]With the discontented who'd stayed at home [03:29.31]You must have whiskey or you'll die [03:36.55] [03:37.21]The beer garden under the old chateau [03:42.11]Our faces now in the candle glow [03:46.83]See the memories how they shine [03:52.50] [03:54.44]And you remember the holocaust [03:59.56]You remember all we lost [04:04.52]The children torn and the borders crossed [04:07.99] [04:08.51]And we'll sing of it now for Sasha