Skinny Kid

I was only fifteen
 A family lunch in the summer
 I was looking at grandad
 Too much wine for my jolly old man
 He was talking too loud
 About a time in the war
 Somewhere in Berlin
 Couldn't jump the train
 Couldn't stop the rain
 Couldn't guess the pain
 Couldn't break the chain
 When he walked through the gate
 In iron letters read his fate
 The skinny kid
 Drowns in an ocean
 He tries to swim
 Among wheels in motion
 The skinny kid
 Can't stop the corrosion
 He's losing his grip
 Wave upon wave of
 Faceless strangers
 Chosen, discarded
 Put in a line to the chambers
 He was spared by the guards
 Just because of his craft
 The skinny kid
 Like a sudden explosion
 Runs away from the pit
 A dream has swollen
 The skinny kid
 High above on a tree
 He's tied up to sleep