Dead of night in Carpentras Brings the ghosts from the days of Vichy Broken windows in the high street Swastikas in the cemetery Blond young men on a Rostock evening Beer and loathing on their breath Ten to one like their cowardly fathers Arms outstretched in the sign of death
CHORUS If it takes a voice then shout the truth If it takes a hand then hold them back If it takes a fist then smash them down From Cable Street to Hoyerswerda Griffin, Schonhuber and Le Pen - This is Free Europe! Never again!
Some may seek respectability: Austria, France, they're winning votes Playing on the Left's confusion Pressing flesh, not slitting throats Laws enacted to appease them Testify to Europe's shame They may dress in suits and ties now But the answer is the same....
Once more we see the darkness in the European soul As the chains fall, there comes an awful beast His eyes are staring, and there is hell upon his brow: Oskar, Francois, Gregor, Tanya, listen to me now....
I'm a Jew in Carpentras I'm a Jew in a Russian city I'm an Asian in the East End I'm a Cuban in East Germany Don't tell me it doesn't concern us It's not something to ignore They are feeding on our apathy: That's how it began before...