Heavy Metal vs. Holocaust Denial

**microrobert** · 12-26-2012, 04:29 AM

This is the U.S. metal band Disturbed, the bald guy is David Draiman, who's Jewish, and whose father, Yehuda Draiman, is running for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2013 election. In 2010, Disturbed released their album Asylum, which featured the song "Never Again". Draiman explained that it's "about the Holocaust and the people who deny it, like Ahmadinejad. And part of our live show includes a video presentation depicting him as the new Hitler."

Below are the lyrics to the song, and the only part I'll comment on, is the line: "For the countless souls who died, their voices fill this night", I was under the impression that the count was "six million," I thought everyone knew that.

Never again
Never again

They have a frightening desire for genocide
They wouldn't stop 'til what was left of my family died
Hell bent on taking over the world
You couldn't hide in the shout of conformity

We can't forget how we were devastated by the beast
And now we pleaded with the captors for release
We were hunted for no reason at all
One of the darkest times in our history

All that I have left inside is a soul that's filled with pride
I tell you never again, oh
In a brave society, didn't end up killing me
Scream with me, never again, not again, no

A generation that was persecuted endlessly
Exterminated by the Nazi war machine
We will remember, let the story be told
To realize how we lost our humanity

You dare to tell me that there never was a Holocaust
You think that history will leave the memory lost
Another Hitler using fear to control
You're gonna fail this time for the world to see

All that I have left inside is a soul that's filled with pride
I tell you never again, oh
In a brave society, didn't end up killing me
Scream with me, never again, not again, no

All that I have left inside is a soul that's filled with pride
I tell you never again, oh
In a brave society, didn't end up killing me
Scream with me, never again, oh

For the countless souls who died, their voices fill this night
Sing with me, never again, oh
They aren't lost, you see, the truth will live in me
Believe me, never again