Wagner At The Opera Lyrics
Picked up by the arms and legs and taken from the hall
For squaring up to culture in the circle and the stall
Over half century a but still i can't forget
Ideology makes a mockery of a string quartet
I can't keep quiet i have something to declare
Listen to my rattle, for my rattle says beware
A rattle for remembering the rattle of the trains
From war's down the decades to hell and home again
A swing it till i drown out all the music and the songs
this rattle will last forever and my memory is long
This is based on a true story.
A concert put on by the Israeli Symphony Orchestra in the early 2000's promoted the works of Richard Wagner, a renowned Anti-Semite and Hitler's personal favorite composer. The idea was that Wagner's works be performed as a way to bulk that particular taboo and let sleeping dogs lie. In the audience there was an older man in attendance. He was a concentration camp survivor and he'd gone to this performance specifically to voice his protest. Right in the very middle of a soaring, sweeping, epic performance of Wagner's finest work, this man stood up and rang off a football rattle, upsetting the music and paying homage to millions lost to a horrific regime.
Chumbawama? Why must you be so brilliant? :3
@MaxwellHB Maxwell, why indeed. Short of ordering the album online, do you have any idea where I can get the sleeve notes for this album. WYSIWYG's sleeve notes left me in quite depressed slump but they add a lot to the album. But I would love the back story to this album. Like "Ratatay" and "Dance Idiot dance" (Nick Clegg?)
@MaxwellHB Maxwell, why indeed. Short of ordering the album online, do you have any idea where I can get the sleeve notes for this album. WYSIWYG's sleeve notes left me in quite depressed slump but they add a lot to the album. But I would love the back story to this album. Like "Ratatay" and "Dance Idiot dance" (Nick Clegg?)