Hold Out Your Hand

Album: The State (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is about Concentration Camps/Death Camps during World War II. The "Human Mile" refers to the Jews who will never come back. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Jay - Reading, England
  • The lyric, "Hard Work Will Set You Free" is the English translation to the words written on the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    David - Alamo Heights, TX

Comments: 2

  • David from Alamo Heights, TxThe words "Hard Work Will Set You Free" refers to the words written about the gate to Auschwitz (the real sign is written in German, of course).
  • Joe from Marion, OhThis is an awesome song, I've been looking for the meaning for a long time.
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