This song might be about aliens at first glance but I actually think it is about WW2 and the Germans coming to take away the family and all the things they have in their house. Note the lines:
"None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient
And they don't dare to come here
Anymore now
But how I loved our secret meetings
We talked and talked in quiet voices
Smiling... "
This implies she had some friends who talked about thr war and maybe they have tipped off the SS to come and raid her house.
I also think that she has harboured Jews or people hiding from the SS as these lines suggest:
"These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation
And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces
And now they've come to take me
Come to break me
And yet it isn't unexpected
I have been waiting for these visitors"
A very deep and moving song, once you get the meaning of it.
This song might be about aliens at first glance but I actually think it is about WW2 and the Germans coming to take away the family and all the things they have in their house. Note the lines:
"None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient And they don't dare to come here Anymore now But how I loved our secret meetings We talked and talked in quiet voices Smiling... "
This implies she had some friends who talked about thr war and maybe they have tipped off the SS to come and raid her house.
I also think that she has harboured Jews or people hiding from the SS as these lines suggest:
"These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces And now they've come to take me Come to break me And yet it isn't unexpected I have been waiting for these visitors"
A very deep and moving song, once you get the meaning of it.