This Train Revised By: Kaylie N This song is by the Indigo Girls. This is a song about the Holocaust. There aren't a lot of songs about the Holocaust, so it was interesting to hear one. There are a lot of symbolic elements such as when they say gypsies they mean hippies and when they saw queers and David's stars they mean homosexuals and Jews. Count the faces means when they had head counts every morning no matter what. When they say do we even belong to the human race means they weren't even treated like humans. Carry my family doesn't mean blood relationship but could mean the people with the same race or religion. Cover our eyes means that they never told the Jews what the camps would really be. They said they felt like a fish white belly, a lump in the throat, and razor on wire. Fish have a white belly when they are sick or dead. Lumps in the throat are what you get when you are scared or nervous about something. Razor on wire is the barb wire on the fences to keep them in. Piss and blood is anger and of course blood. It says skin and bone which means that they had broken bones and torn skin. Stacked like wood is how they were stacked like logs up to be killed. The Jews never had a chance to try anything in life because they were killed or severely hurt. They talk about this metaphorically. Some of the examples are dancer with no legs and a builder with no back. This song really makes you think to understand what they mean by the words. Although when you do this song will give you a good understanding of the Holocaust.