This Time, John Lyrics

Lyric discussion by beer good 

Cover art for This Time, John lyrics by Stina Nordenstam

One of Stina's "child murder" songs: this one about John Hron, a Swedish teenager who was brutally murdered by four neo-nazis. See http://www1.us.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hron-john/murder-of-john-hron.html

What I love about this song is the freeze-frame of the moment. You can't stop bad things from happening, but you can remember them. The dead aren't truly dead until we forget they lived. "But you're still floating."