Sir Nicholas Winton

Album: Heroes And Demons (2018)
  • The year was 1938
    The hour was kristallnacht
    A young englishman with skI trip plans instead went off to prague
    Atrocities to refugees
    Confiscated wealth
    Two weeks was all he had
    But he had to see it for himself

    He saw the fragile elderly whose faith was undeterred
    The vital lines of justice become so clearly blurred
    Desperation on young parents whose prayers were futile words
    The faces of innocent children never to be seen or heard

    The systematic extinction about to unfold i'll never understand
    The condemned waited for miracles while the world put its head in the sand
    He found a hole in the master's plan
    Ordinary person
    Two eyes, two ears, two hands

    He organized a kinder transport with a few who would risk their lives
    Money was raised
    Adoptions arranged
    Visas real and falsified
    A rescue operation for the children to survive
    Mothers and the fathers waved their last goodbyes

    For six months they came
    Boat, plane and train
    From Czechoslovakia to Great Britain
    The Gestapo stopped the final train with 250 on all gone
    Safe in the homes of strangers were 669

    The land is ruled by lions
    Light a flame for the law of the lamb
    If it's not impossible
    Nicky believed you can
    Ordinary person
    Two eyes, two ears, two hands

    Fifty years had passed before it was learned
    What this humble hero did
    His wife found a personal scrapbook with the secret he kept hid
    Nicky's children celebrated his birthday when he reached one hundred and five
    6,500 candles burning his gift was all their lives

    Peace is not impossible
    Every child a chance
    Hope lives with the legacy
    The story of a man
    Ordinary person
    two eyes, two ears, two hands Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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