Whats this song about?

Question

When I watch you, wanna do you, right where you're standing, yeah
Right on the foyer on this dark day right in plain view, oh yeah
Of the whole ghetto, the boot-stomped meadows, but we ignore that, yeah
You're lovely baby, this war is crazy, I won't let you
down oh no, no, no...

I won't let them take you, won't let them take you hell no, no, oh no

I won't let them take you, won't let them take you hell no, no

No, oh no, no, no

And when our city vast and shitty falls to the Axis, yeah
They'll search the buildings collect gold fillings wallets and rings, oh yeah
But Miss Black Eyeliner, you'd look finer with each day in hiding, oh yeah
Beneath the wormwood, oh love me so good,
they won't hear us screw away the day, I'll make you say

No I won't let them take you, won't let them take you hell no, no

Oh no I won't let them take you, won't let them take you hell no, no

Our Treblinkah is alive with the glory of love,
Treblinkah, alive with the glory

of love, yeah

(Ok speed it up now)

Should they catch us, and dispatch us to those separate work camps
I'll dream about you I will not doubt you with the passing of time, oh yeah
Should they kill me your love will fill me as warm as the bullets, yeah
I'll know my purpose this war was worth this I won't let you down no I won't, no I won't, no I won't

(Alive, Alive, alive with love alive with love)
Hell no, no, oh no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you hell no, no

No, no




Obviously its about Wold War II but why write this song now? What excactly is it about cause I got really nothing from the music video.

Answer 1

"Alive With The Glory of Love" is the first single off of Say Anything's sophomore album ...Is A Real Boy. An "Intense and oddly uplifting rocker about a relationship torn by the Holocaust", the song is actually semi-biographical in nature telling about songwriter and vocalist Max Bemis' grandparents who were Holocaust survivors. In an interview with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Bemis said: "I thought about what it would be like to be in love and be separated from the person you love, because these times are just as dire in a way. Anything can happen, in a war and terrorist attacks and cynicism and all these actors who oppose love."