Lyrics
We gave you shelter
We provided refuge
We gave you food
We offered sustenance
You gave your body
You sacrificed your physical self
You gave your soul
You sacrificed your essence or identity
You gave your life
You sacrificed your life
You gave your wife
You sacrificed your marital partner
Left her broken
You left her shattered
Your children broken
Your offspring left in despair
Paradise,
A reference to a promised land or ideal place
Garden of Eden
Alluding to a perfect, harmonious place like the biblical Garden of Eden
Your work day
Your daily toil
Stove and laundry
Menial tasks like using a stove and doing laundry
Twenty kids
An exaggerated number of children per household
in every flat
Overcrowded living conditions
Sleep in shifts, eat the rats
Extreme conditions, possibly scarcity of resources
Nothing left to give, but we want more
Nothing more to offer, yet the demand persists
You want to live?
Asking if one desires to continue living
It's worse than before
Situation deteriorated compared to the past
To the island of the snake!
A call to go to a place associated with deception or danger
Where the evil's still awake
Where malevolence remains active
Still lying
Persisting falsehoods or deceit
in your grave
Still in the grave, implying death or demise
Your wife and kids too late to save
Your family beyond rescue, too late to save
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