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Wagner At The Opera Lyrics
I'm lying on the pavement and the last thing i recall
Picked up by the arms and legs and taken from the hall
For squaring up to culture in the circle and the stall
All because there playing Wagner at the opera X2
Hurt can make you act without apology or regret
Over half century a but still i can't forget
Ideology makes a mockery of a string quartet
All because there playing Wagner at the opera X2
When they came to take me i was standing on a chair
I can't keep quiet i have something to declare
Listen to my rattle, for my rattle says beware
All because there playing Wagner at the opera X2
A rattle for remembering the rattle of the chains
A rattle for remembering the rattle of the trains
From war's down the decades to hell and home again
All because there playing Wagner at the opera X2
For everyone we lost a swing the rattle loud and long
A swing it till i drown out all the music and the songs
this rattle will last forever and my memory is long
Here's to no more playing Wagner at the opera X3
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
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Submitted by
ellz On Mar 16, 2010
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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.
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@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?)