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JewishWikipedia.info
THE
INCREDIBLE
STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
HOLOCAUST
Leonard Cohen:
“Dance Me To The End Of Love”
Leonard Cohen:
“Dance Me To The End Of Love”
Arose From
Photo Of Death Camp Musicians
“This is a song that arose from a photograph that I saw when I was a child of some people in striped pyjamas prison uniforms with violins playing beside a smoke stack and the smoke was made out of gypsies and children, and this song arose out of that photograph:
Dance Me To The End Of Love.”
Leonard Cohen
From Leonard Cohen’s introduction to Dance Me To The End Of Love
at the April 10, 1988 Koln concert.
The photo atop this post of prisoner musicians at Camp Mauthausen
is only one of several such images
and is unlikely to be the specific photo that inspired
Leonard Cohen’s, Dance Me To The End Of Love.
Q: What about the “burning violin”
in
“Dance Me To The End Of Love”?
“There were these little orchestras the Germans put together in concentration camps. They played while people were being incinerated or gassed. If you want to read the song from that point of view, it becomes something quite different”
Leonard Cohen
From Leonard Cohen: The Profits Of Doom by Steve Turner,
Q (UK), April 1988.
From Leonard Cohen, CBC Radio Interview (August 26, 1995).
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Oh dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, oh dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand, touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of Love (Official Video)