Stargazing - live camera demo
675 views · Published 16 January 2011 · 4:41 · Indexed 7 October 2026
Channel: Oswlek · 2011 · Entertainment
Details below the lyrics -------------------------------- Close the door, turn out the ligfht Try ot keep your tears inside Remember when all hope has died To keep stargazing Your mother and I may be gone When the morning light has come You're in charge now my son So keep stargazing This memory will never fade I hope you understand one day Why we had to go away I hope, I pray So take your sister by the hand When the light touches the sand Leave this Godforsaken land I hope, I pray God, won't you help me now Close the door, turn out the light When you look back on this night Try ot keep your faith alive When your stargazing ---------------------------------- During WWII, Russia, supposedly an ally at the time, requested the aid of Poland's best and brightest. They responded by sending over 20,000 of their top engineers, pilots, doctors and infantryman. Russia thanked them by shooting them all in the back of the head, dumping their bodies in a mass grave, and and spending the next 60 years denying any part in the atrocity. On April 10 of this past year, Polish president Lech Kacynski was flying to Katyn - the site of the massacre - when his plane went down. The American media reacted with a collective shrug. "TIME" magazine ran a single page piece declaring that the disaster, which took nearly half of the Polish parliament with it, might eventually be a good thing. My wife, a Polish immigrant, and I were recently talking about this and we wondered if there would be as much apathy had it been French diplomats, or a plane full of Jews, flying into a recently admitted German concentration camp. ************EDIT***************** Sometimes I forget that youtube is an international venture. The prior comment wasn't intended as an attack on Germany or our German friends and family. I was just trying to illustrate the horrific event using a well known comparable from the same time period. *********************** Perhaps this was on my mind when I tried to determine what this song was about. Closing my eyes and listening to the erie music, a terrifying image came to me. It was of a father, knowing full well his family is about to be taken away to some unspeakable hell, hiding his children in a secret compartment. As he's locking the door behind himself, he implores them to remain hopeful; to keep their childlike wonder alive. This is a live recording done with a camera, so please accept my apology for the occasional pounding notes (reverb added afterward). If time permits, I am thinking about doing a multitrack version of this, let me know if you think it is worth the investment or if you'd like to work on it together. . I hope the new year is treating everyone well. Thanks for your friendship and support. I will do my best to stop by and check out your newest uploads as soon as I can.
