One of my friends intepretation is the "Into this furnace..." chorus is God speaking speaking to the Jews to enter in the gas chambers, and the "you whom I cannot betray" is heavily ironic as the Jews consider themselves bound into a covenant with God, and it is them whom he loves most.
Or, then again, having said that I believe it is Cohen asking us to go into the sites of atrocities to take lessons to learn so these horrors can never be repeated. Hence the line: Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
I love the version of this done by the walkmen too.
One of my friends intepretation is the "Into this furnace..." chorus is God speaking speaking to the Jews to enter in the gas chambers, and the "you whom I cannot betray" is heavily ironic as the Jews consider themselves bound into a covenant with God, and it is them whom he loves most.
Or, then again, having said that I believe it is Cohen asking us to go into the sites of atrocities to take lessons to learn so these horrors can never be repeated. Hence the line: Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
I love the version of this done by the walkmen too.