In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week, I wanted to share a song that was inspired by the Holocaust and concentration camps. Taken from Wikipedia, here is some information behind the song:
Lyricist Neil Peart has stated that the detailed imagery in the song intentionally evokes concentration camps of the Holocaust. Peart has stated that while Nazi concentration camps of World War II were his primary lyrical motivation, he decided to abstract the lyrics so as to apply to the experiences of atrocity of any similar prison camp scenario. It also has to do with singer/bassist Geddy Lee’s remembrance of his mother’s accounts of the Holocaust, which she survived.
“Red Sector A” by Rush
All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive
I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
Are the liberators here?
Do I hope or do I fear?
Beautiful!!
I love Rush.
This is a great, emotional song!
Powerful lyrics!
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Wonderfully powerful lyrics, thank you for sharing.
I enjoy Rush. I never knew this song was inspired by the Holocaust.
That is beautiful and kind of scary too.
Very powerful! The Holocaust is such a horrible topic to study, but so necessary. Thanks for doing this feature on it this week.
Absolutely love.
haven't heard of this one, but its powerful
Just the fact that it's inspired off of WWII was enough to make me click play and now I'm kind of in love with this song <33
I love this song 🙂 You just gave me a flashback to my teens..LOL
I've heard of Rush but I'd never heard this song, and I certainly never knew they wrote a song about the Holocaust. Thank you for sharing!
You know… I don't know many Rush songs but people just love them!