Kadaverstern

Annotation

Gothic Metal group, formed in 1995 in Rödermark, Hessen, Germany. It members were: Dirk Riegert [aka Rig] (vocals), and Tobias Hahn [aka Toby] (programming, piano). Note: this group is different from the more well-known progressive rock group Janus, also based in Germany, but from the UK, who also released a Vietnam War song ("Napalm Sticks to Kids"). The song "Kadaverstern" (Trisol Music Group # TRI 255 CD) referenced the My Lai massacre while recalling "Treblinka", a Nazi extermination camp: "Treblinka is daily for me, Soweto and My Lai... the war is never over". As noted elsewhere, the My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese area known as "Pinkville", containing the hamlets, known as My Lai 4 and My Khe 4, and throughout the area of Song My, by US forces on 16 March 1968.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs

Gothic Metal group, formed in 1995 in Rödermark, Hessen, Germany. It members were: Dirk Riegert [aka Rig] (vocals), and Tobias Hahn [aka Toby] (programming, piano). Note: this group is different from the more well-known progressive rock group Janus, also based in Germany, but from the UK, who also released a Vietnam War song ("Napalm Sticks to Kids"). The song "Kadaverstern" (Trisol Music Group # TRI 255 CD) referenced the My Lai massacre while recalling "Treblinka", a Nazi extermination camp: "Treblinka is daily for me, Soweto and My Lai... the war is never over".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

German: Für euch bin ich gestorben / Und muss in jedem Käfig / Wieder auferstehen / Mein Auge hat geleuchtet / Und keiner hat / In dem Moment hineingesehen / Für euch bin ich gestorben / Ganz langsam, doch der Schornstein / Hat nur kurz geraucht / Kein Mond um dran zu heulen / Ich hab nur / Nackte Neonröhren angefaucht / Für mich ist täglich Treblinka / Soweto und My Lai / Für mich ist täglich Golgatha / Und nie der Krieg vorbei / Und nie der Krieg vorbei... / Für euch bin ich gestorben / Damit ihr euer krankes Leben / Überlebt / Wie könnt ihr bloß ertragen / Daß ihr mir von Geburt an / Keine Chance gebt?" "I died for you / And must rise again in every cage / My eyes shone / And no one looked / At that moment / I died for you / Very slowly, but the chimney / Smoked only briefly / No moon to cry / I just hissed at naked neon tubes / Treblinka is daily for me / Soweto and My Lai / Golgotha is daily for me / And the war is never over / And the war is never over... / I died for you / So that you survive your sick life / How can you bear / That you gave me / No chance from birth?

About the artist

Gothic Metal group, formed in 1995 in Rödermark, Hessen, Germany: Dirk Riegert [Rig] (vocals), Tobias Hahn [Toby] (programming, piano). Distinct from the UK/Germany progressive rock group Janus ("Napalm Sticks to Kids").

Themes

My Lai · Holocaust · Genocide · Anti-War · Apartheid

In collections

European Songs · Metal Songs · My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs