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Pitiless the barbed wire dealing Death

that round our prison runs

And a sky that knows no feeling

Sends us ice and burning suns

Lost our homes

Lost our loves

Lost our all

To their work in silence fall

Song of Dachau is burnt on our brains

As unyielding as steel we shall be

Work on, we'll go through with the task we've begun

For work, my brothers, work makes us free

Haunted by the gun mouths turning

All our days and nights are spent

Toil is ours - the way we're learning

Harder than we ever dreamt

Lost our homes

Lost our loves

Lost our all

To their work in silence fall

Song of Dachau is burnt on our brains

As unyielding as steel we shall be

Work on, we'll go through with the task we've begun

For work, my brothers, work makes us free

Weeks and months we cease to reckon

Pass, and some forget the years

And so many men are broken

And their faces changed with fears

Song of Dachau is burnt on our brains

As unyielding as steel we shall be

Work on, we'll go through with the task we've begun

For work, my brothers, work makes us free