Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

This was written after LC learned about the orchestra  at AuschwitHis father died when he was a   boy.The following year WW2 ended and he learned about the Holocaust.He suffered from severe depression all his life

As a poet, he says he cannot tell us why this song came out the way it did.But maybe it is affirming love and children,Unlike Christianity Judaism values human sexuality and the body.And they wish to replace the dead.