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Muranow

I. They built the townhouses  on your burial mounds  They dug up your ashes   from out of the grounds  Ground your bones into mortar   to plaster the walls  It's little surprise   that you've haunted us all When nothing remained   they laid down a new grid  If the pattern is altered  then the ghost's will stay hid  No old streets to wander   no old haunts to roam  but the ghosts of the ghetto   call the townhouses home They died in the cellars They died in the streets  They died on their hands   and they died on their feet  They died in the city   and in the camps, too  And their ghosts keep returning  to haunt me and you II. A sea of humanity  withered away These streets  at a glance seem barren today But when you glimpse in the shadows  the sea will appear The waves of their spirits  still hauntingly near When at last liquidate...