Little Black Ribbons
from You Are All Of These by Deborah Levoy
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This song is based on a poem by Richard Nevle describing an exhibit at Stanford University on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit commemorated the Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters.
lyrics
Little black ribbons
hanging against a black cloth.
Each with a name and an age,
all from the city of Warsaw.
They flutter in the breeze
like children, hung from trees,
their weight not enough to still them.
I close my eyes to stop
my hands and legs from trembling.
Cuz people might stare
at a grown woman crying
in the middle of a plaza,
in the middle of the day,
Yom Ha Shoah, remember.
The black cloth moves over me,
it's folds cover my head.
Pressed by 6 million voices
murmuring in prayer.
From lungs and hearts and fists
made black and disappeared,
remembered as little ribbons,
listen, listen
Little black ribbons,
little black ribbons,
remember.
hanging against a black cloth.
Each with a name and an age,
all from the city of Warsaw.
They flutter in the breeze
like children, hung from trees,
their weight not enough to still them.
I close my eyes to stop
my hands and legs from trembling.
Cuz people might stare
at a grown woman crying
in the middle of a plaza,
in the middle of the day,
Yom Ha Shoah, remember.
The black cloth moves over me,
it's folds cover my head.
Pressed by 6 million voices
murmuring in prayer.
From lungs and hearts and fists
made black and disappeared,
remembered as little ribbons,
listen, listen
Little black ribbons,
little black ribbons,
remember.
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from You Are All Of These,
released January 1, 2003
Lyrics Richard Nevle and Deborah Levoy
Music Deborah Levoy
Lyrics Richard Nevle and Deborah Levoy
Music Deborah Levoy
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Deborah Levoy San Jose, California
Deborah Levoy's music has been described as fierce and fearless, dreamy, lush, and plaintive all at
once.
After taking time off to raise a family, Levoy is back in the studio recording her 4th album. Inspired by her love of wild places and her work as a climate activist with 350 Silicon Valley, she has turned to new territory to explore our relationship with nature.
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Jan 1995
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