Born To Remember by Sam Glaser
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Born To Remember by Sam Glaser
 
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Composed by Sam Glaser ©1994 Glaser Musicworks www.samglaser.com

Lyrics:
Dreams
What are these dreams
Why are these images returning every night
Who is breathing life
Into these photographs of fading black and white

Out of the depths
Of a darkness we can never hope to understand
Somehow the voices still sing
"We survive"

We were born to remember
Born to remember our families
Born to remember
Cause all we have left are the memories

A lesson learned not very long ago
From generations we will never know
We tell their story to the world today
A world silent as they passed away

Mama, hold me close
Please tell me everything my bubby used to say
How did she go on
As she watched them take her family away

Out of the depths
With a strength that we can never hope to understand
Somehow she fought for every breath
To keep the flame alive

We were born to remember
Born to remember our families
Born to remember
Or no one will speak of their legacy

A lesson learned not very long ago
From generations we will never know
To tell their story to the world today
A world silent as they passed away

I've been hoping for a rainbow
Some eternal sign
That hate and fear
Will disappear forevermore

Born to remember how relentlessly
They disassembled each community
Packed all our precious ones in cattle cars
Sent on a one way trip into the stars

Born to remember how their bodies froze
While marching barefoot through the winter snows
Becoming numb to hungry children's cries
Catching our final glimpse of butterflies

Dreams
We are their dreams
We are the future that their children were denied
Will we be their voice
If we remember then they never really died

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