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Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here

They boarded up the synagogues, Uzis on a street corner
You can't take a photograph of Uzis on a street corner
The DJ resigned today they wouldn't let him have his say
Surface scratched where the needles play, Uzis on a street corner
Where do we go from here
Terror in Rue de St. Denis, murder on the periphery
Someone else in someone else's pocket
Christ knows I don't know how to stop it
Poppies at the cenotaph, the cynics can't afford to laugh
I heard in on the telegraph there's Uzis on a street corner

Where do we go from here, where do we go from here

The more I see, the more I hear, the more I find fewer answers
I close my mind, I shout it out but you know it's getting harder
To calm down, to reason out, to come to terms with what it's all about
I'm uptight, can't sleep at night, I can't pretend everything's all right
My ideals, my sanity, they seem to be deserting me
But to stand up and fight I know we have six million reasons

They're burning down the synagogues, Uzis on a street corner
The heralds of the holocaust, Uzis on a street corner
The silence never louder than now, how quickly we forgot our vows
This resurrection we can't allow, Uzis on a street corner

Where do we go from here, where do we go from here

We buy fresh bagels from the corner store
Where swastikas are spat from aerosols
I sit in the bar sipping iced White Russian
Trying to score but nobody's pushing
And everyone looks at everyone's faces
Searching for signs and praying for traces of a conscience in residence
Are we sitting on a barbed wire fence
Racing the clouds home, racing the clouds home

We place our faith in human rights
In the paper wars that tie the red tape tight
I know that I would rather be out of this conspiracy
In the gulags and internment camps frozen faces in nameless ranks
I know that they would rather be standing here besides me
Racing the clouds home, racing the clouds home

You can shut your eyes, you can hide it away it's gonna come back another
day
Racing the clouds home, are we racing the clouds home
Racing the clouds home
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Cover art for White Russian lyrics by Marillion

This song is about the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe and how people seem to feel helpless to stop it. The lyrics, like the lyrics of "Forgotten Sons," express a cynicism in the government's ability to do anything to stop the violence ("We place our faith in human rights/In the paper wars that tie the red tape tight").

Thanks alot for your comment. :)

Cover art for White Russian lyrics by Marillion

What seems to confuse me is their reference to the Uzi, which was an Israeli made weapon and did not come into existence until 1954. So the reference "Uzis on the street corner" does not seem to fit here.

@rock100971 The song is about the rise neo-nazism in 80's Europe so the Uzi was around.

@rock100971 Very good point. I think he is talking about the invasion from Israel to Palestine territories, In jerusalem there there was Israeli soldiers with UZI in each corner. There was a silent war and the Heralds of the holocaust get silent

@rock100971 Very good point. I think he is talking about the invasion from Israel to Palestine territories, In jerusalem there there was Israeli soldiers with UZI in each corner. There was a silent war and the Heralds of the holocaust get silent. Neo Nazis never would use an Israeli weapon

 
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