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Artist/Band: Ani DiFranco
Lyrics for Song: My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Ani DiFranco



My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg

And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago

It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame

For the horrors that the world did undergo

A short while later when I applied to be a G. I. bride

An American consular official questioned me

He refused my exit permit, said my answers did not show

I'd learned my lesson about responsibility.



Thus suddenly I was forced to start thinking on this theme

And when later I was permitted to emigrate

I must have been asked a hundred times where I was and what I did

In those years when Hitler ruled our state

I said I was a child or at most a teen-ager

But that only extended the questioning

They'd ask, where were my parents, my father, my mother

And to this I could answer not a thing.



The seed planted there at Nuremberg in 1947

Started to sprout and to grow

Gradually I understood what that verdict meant to me

When there are crimes that I can see and I can know

And now I also know what it is to be charged with mass guilt

Once in a lifetime is enough for me

No, I could not take it for a second time

And that is why I am here today.



The events of May 25th, the day of our protest,

Put a small balance weight on the other side

Hopefully, someday my contribution to peace

Will help just a bit to turn the tide

And perhaps I can tell my children six

And later on their own children

That at least in the future they need not be silent

When they are asked, "Where was your mother, when?"


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Ani DiFranco


Ani DiFranco
"Other Songs - Ani DiFranco"


1. Aids
2. Alla This
3. Asked You First
4. Astronaut (Ft Radiohead)
5. Christians & Pegans
6. Cold And Mean (Answering Machine)
7. Come Away From It
8. Doe, Re, Mi
9. Emancipated Minor
10. Fair Weather
11. Glass House
12. Good Luck
13. Handsome Musician
14. Heart Break Even
15. How Long Can It Last
16. Hurricane
17. I Loved You, So What
18. Landing Gear
19. Lost Womans Song
20. Million You Never Made
21. My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage
22. No Reason To Come Home
23. North Main Street
24. Oh My My
25. One Times One Times One
26. Perfect Fingers
27. Pixie (Be Nice)
28. Present/Infant
29. Red Letter Year
30. Round A Pole
31. Silver Ingrid
32. Sistersong
33. Smiling Underneath
34. So What?
35. Star Matter
36. Submerged
37. Subway
38. The Atom
39. This Bouquet
40. To Be Free
41. True Story Of What Was
42. Up Up Up Up Up Up
43. Way Tight
44. When Doves Cry
45. When I'm Gone
46. When You Were Mine
47. Wishin' And Hopin'