Herb Girls Of Birkenau Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Saline 

Cover art for Herb Girls Of Birkenau lyrics by Rasputina

blue -- the "vegetable rinds" (and the kommandant hoarding them) refers to the lack of food for the prisoners at the concentration camps. what they got, mostly, was watered-down barely-coffee and soup which sometimes MAYBE had a piece of celery or lettuce in it... people who found food were very lucky, but mostly those "in charge" would keep it for themselves and ignore the prisoners. i'm not sure what "swayback" refers to, though.