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Refugee Song and Same EP

by Rosenbush

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1.
See the broken menorah Lying on the floor In a pile of broken glass See the smoke as it rises From the synagogues As the sacred burns into ash It’s time to go It’s time to go One good German found a ship For 900 of us to escape As the ship was sailing from the shore The sun began to break Lady Liberty we’re on our way But we won’t open up those door We’ll keep those refugees on board We’ll send them home to die On the ship that sailed in 39’ See the white picket fences lined with barbed wire Keeping us safe and sound But will the blood on our hands give away what we've done When God suddenly looks down Cause we won’t open up those door We’ll keep those refugees on board We’ll send them home to die Like the ship that sailed in 39 Come on, come Just let me protect myself Let me do my best to forget I killed someone else (Open up, open up to them) We won’t open up those door We’ll keep those refugees on board We’ll send them home to die Like the ship that sailed in 39
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Same 03:12
Where can I go from Your spirit O’ God Where can I go where You would not find me If I ascend into Heaven there You are If I make my bed in Hell there You’d be Cause it's all the same to You It's all the same to You Lord I know that hell can’t hide me from You If I say that surely the darkness would fall on me Like the thickest darkness that the world has ever seen Well I know the night would shine as the day The darkness and light would be both the same Lord I know the night can’t hide me from You It's all the same to You It's all the same to You The night can't hide me from You It's all the same to You It's all the same to You Lord I know the night can’t hide me from You O’ Lord I know that nothing can hide me from You To You it’s all the same

about

This EP is a collection of two new songs, one of which, "Refugee Song", pertains to the Syrian refugee crisis. I hope you enjoy this music, and give thought to the words of the songs.

"Refugee Song (The MS Saint Louis)"
This song is a retelling of the voyage of the MS Saint Louis, which sailed in 1939. On this ship, 900 Jews fled the Holocaust but were turned away by both Cuba and the United States. The ship made the humiliating voyage back to Europe with the vast majority of its passengers never getting off the ship. After returning, one quarter of the passengers eventually died in the Holocaust. Are we repeating this same mistake again by turning away those fleeing the genocide taking place in the Middle East right now? I think we are.

Search google the MS Saint Louis for information on how we turned away refugees fleeing one of the worst genocides of a century.

"Same"
This songs is a retelling of Psalm 139:7-12, which are some of my favorite verses of the Bible. These verses say that there is absolutely nothing that can separate me from God. He is always with me and is an ever present guide and refuge. For all you Christians out there, these verses talk about heaven and hell, but I find that it's more helpful to think about them in terms of our life here and now, rather than trying to draw conclusions from these verses about what the afterlife may be like.

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released March 19, 2016

All songs written by Daniel Rosenbush

Drums by David Wiesjahn
Electric Rhythm Guitar on "Refugee Song" by Trevor Weist
All other instruments by Daniel Rosenbush

Recorded at home
Refugee Song (The MS Saint Louis) mixed by David Wiesjahn
Same mixed by Daniel Rosenbush

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