When Universes Collide

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Why didn't you come when I beat my drum And screamed off my head out into the night Scared of the slums, afraid of the guns Don't want to see their hoodlums fight

Hey hey hey, na na na na Don't want to see their hoodlums fight Hey hey hey, na na na na Don't want to see their hoodlums fight

I was going to come when I heard your drum And you screamed your head off into the night I grew up around different part of town But even the universes collide

Hey hey hey, na na na na Even the universes collide Hey hey hey, na na na na Even the universes collide

There was no letter, no family matter And by the castas we don't divide It's just father told me tonight authorities Preparing ethno-cleansing ride

Hey hey hey, na na na na Preparing ethno-cleansing ride Hey hey hey, na na na na Preparing ethno-cleansing ride

Two helicopters with machine guns Over the slums proudly will glide So when the universes collide Son, don't get caught on the wrong side!

Hey hey hey, na na na na When the universes collide Hey hey hey, na na na na Son, don't get caught on the wrong side

Hey hey hey, na na na na When the universes collide Hey hey hey, na na na na Son, don't get caught on the wrong side

Hey hey hey, na na na na When the universes collide Hey hey hey, na na na na Son, don't get caught on the wrong side

Why didn't you come When I beat my drum And screamed off my head Out after the raid Your mother told you Our father stopped you Out of the hospitals you are afraid When universe will collide Don't get caught on the wrong side

The Mention of Helicopters would indicate that this song is about different atrocity but I have a good idea of what may have inspired Eugene the singer to write this song.\n\nIt would require a brief history lesson.\n\nSeptember 29 1941, Kyiv Ukraine. Nazi Occupiers of Ukraine ordered all Jews, Roma people and Communists to report to the city square to be relocated otherwise if they were discovered later they would be shot.\n\nThey would be loaded onto trucks and driven away but they were not actually relocated as promised instead they were only driven far enough away from the city so that the people still waiting for trucks at the city center would not be able to hear the firing squads that waited for them.\n\nThey were going on an ethnic cleansing ride like described in the song.\n\nSeveral times more people had reported to the square than the Nazi\'s anticipated so they needed to continue the executions non stop through the night and all of the next day. \n\nSome German Chaplains protested the killing of children in which cases their executions were only delayed until the next day. \n\nwitnesses say the wailing of children was unbearable and would go on into the night like described in the song. it would be the long term source of nightmares for anyone present. it was so terrible that going forward through the Holocaust the Nazi\'s would use other methods of execution like gas to decrease the psychological distress for their own soldiers.\n\nsome 33,000 people, thousands of entire families would be murdered over the course of 48 hours near the Babi Yar ravine then buried some still alive as the dirt was piled on top of them.\n\nSo being that Eugene is a Roma person from Ukraine it would mean that the only reason he was ever born is because his parents somehow evaded being killed in the genocide there so I\'m sure it\'s something that has effected his feelings about genocides or ethnic cleansing as he describes it in the song.\n\nThe song itself seems to be more loosely related to ethnic cleansings in general.