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Burning Grounds

from Strip The Lanterns by Alec Gross

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This song is a pale interpretation of Yevtushenko's poem "In The Fields of Babi Yar". The trees and grasses bear witness and guilt. We've transported the scene to the other side of the world. No difference.

lyrics

A crippled crow cries a dying song
There’s a burned-out patch of earth where the crime got done
And a low grey sky don’t forgive the sun
When that crippled crow cries it’s dying song

See the man try to stand with his back all torn
See the broken branch from the night we stormed
When we cut him down I heard that bugle horn
When the man tried to stand with his back all torn

Silently we all scream
No nothing makes a sound
It’s black & white up on the screen
All the color’s been drained-out
If anything means anything
This should mean something

Damn the trees, damn the silent ground
Damn the people’s eyes that just look around
Damn the tongues that never make a sound
Damn us all to the burning grounds

credits

from Strip The Lanterns, released August 2, 2011
Written by Alec Gross
Produced by Greg Barbone, Alec Gross, and Will Hensley
Recorded at Mission Sounds
Mixed by Ryan Hewitt
Mastered by Alex Saltz

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Alec Gross New York, New York

Alec Gross is an LA-based singer songwriter

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