"Monsters" genre: Poetry
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	A story about my mother as a little girl in Bratislava during the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
	CD: Icy Cold Refreshment Credits: The Klute (recorded in Grant's Bedroom Studios)
	Story Behind the Song After my mother died in 1985, a friend of the family wrote a poem about my mother growing up in Bratislava. She mentioned in the poem the licorice factory that made Bratislava smell of anise. I don't know whatever happened to the poem, I just remember that it was elegaic and very beautiful. So... What brought on this poem? I was thinking about the US policy in Iraq and how amazingly wrong we are... Every day the US keeps up the sanctions and bombing of Iraq, little girls die or are scarred for life, just as my mother was. I wanted to tie the poem in with this, but the poem just wanted to be left alone, as is. I really like Grant's use of echo during the Hitler speech. I got chills the first time I heard Sieg Heil's... I sound WAAAAY to much like an ardent Nazi for my taste.

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