FLASHBACK OF ANGER LYRICS

1. Mother's Soldier

[Music: A. Gori, G. Cercato / lyrics: A. Amadori]

Don’t know the reason why I’m here
Or why’s that gun here in my hand
Did I survive ‘cause they tell us to?
Or to see your face if I can get through?

In times of peace you dried my tears
These days I’d give so much to feel
Even a bit of sadness here in me
To wake the man sleeping in the beast

Here I go
Play my part:
Seek and kill and then run

Nothing but
Flesh and bones
And corpses all around

All of my days just look the same
As I go shooting men from behind without shame
I hear your voice like an angel’s cry reaching hell

Would you recognize me, the child pulling your dress?
Would you still love me, if I told you how much I killed?
Would you still teach me what life is?
Would you take me back to where we left?

Want to escape
(No, you must stay!)
Maybe you’ll see another day

I’ll get away
(You’ll go nowhere!)
It’s all so hellish because

All of my dreams are just the same
I see all of my victims and

I go insane, still I’ve made it, I’m here and I’m alive
You taught me love ‘n I’m a killer, you wouldn’t be proud
You’d tell me off if you knew it
I am a soldier, but still your son.

Here I go
Play my part:
Seek and kill and then run

Nothing but
skin and bones
and corpses all around

Take me Home!
Shoot me down!
Get me out of this mess!

No you won’t
Go back home
Until war is over!

Now
I’m in the game
I’ll have to play
But I will see you once again
While I’m away
Don’t you forget

What I was once: the child pulling your dress
Will you still love me if I tell you about all the mess?
Will you still teach me what Life is?
Please take me back to where I belong

2. False Idols

[Music & lyrics: A. Gori]

Look around, what do I see?
Nothing that relieves me
It’s just hypocrisy
Surrounding me
World is selling pain and greed
But who is paying for this?
The underclass demands
Its stolen dignity
Leaders at the expense of poor
Unpunished crimes of fools
We’re living on the razor-edge of a tragic doom
Hopes die last
And you will hear my voice
We’re heading for a new dawn of freedom
These idle days are over
And we will stand together as one
Money, fame and glory
Shadows of your mind
Drain your soul and make you believe
They are the new gods.
Life is in every second
You live without worries
So don’t waste your time
And be proud of yourself

You will rise up from the ashes
Of your lazy past
You will live in every breath
This is my vision
Happiness to fly and share
you’ll find in what you have
Your love, your skills, your friends
Will save you from this hell
Don’t try to reach out for golden treasures
I’m here to say
Money, fame and glory
Shadows of your mind
Drain your soul and make you believe
They are the new gods.
Life is in every second
You live without worries
So don’t waste your time
And be proud of yourself

3. Gynophobia

[Music: A. Gori / lyrics: A. Amadori]

You forget your dreams
You give up your pride
For that woman here you’d fuck up your life
One day you awake
What was your mistake?
She has gone, she just flew away

Did you buy the moon
To get to her room?
Were you searching for what you read in books?
Hey my friend, wake up
It’s another slut
And she’s born to tear your heart away

Yes my dear, you might spend some years
Giving her your best, hiding all your fears
See, sometimes, nightmares come alive
So first, use your hand, then hear my advice:

There is no thing she’ll ever say or do, that can’t turn to pain
It’s a disease that saves your life, they call it gynophobia

Took it so little for you to be possessed
Remember it will take her even less to turn her back
Just as you thought you were touching heaven
That’s when you hit the ground
Don’t you think there will be justice: there’s just one loser
But don’t forget

How many tears are you gonna cry before you learn?
I’ve had my share, I’ve seen so much you wouldn’t bear

Hey bitch stay away from me
Maybe just one night or two we can meet
Then go find some other fool
This time it’s my will and no other rule

I forgot my dreams
I gave up my pride
For a woman, once, I fucked up my life
But now I’m awake,
No more bad mistakes
No attempts to my happiness

Catch the stars to reach for her heart
When you’ve done it once, then you’ll know them all
I despise, I won’t pay the price
I say use your hand, then hear my advice:

There is no thing she’ll ever say or do, that can’t turn to pain
It’s a disease that saves your life, they call it gynophobia

There is no “yes” that you can still hear today, that can’t turn to “no”
I might be nuts but I feel fine, I just caught this gynophobia.

4. Don't Let Me Fade

[Music & lyrics: A. Gori. Based on a letter by Francesco Masini]

Sometimes it’s hard to realize
That all come and go in a blink of an eye
So I leave my light, my power, my silence
My love, my heart, my ashes, me!

Take me away
Wherever you may roam just hold
My portrait inside your thoughts

Don’t let me fade
Like the smoke of pinewood
Don’t let go the memory of me and you

Tonight I am asking
To that child inside me
Soul of mine
Where have you been all this time?

I leave the thousand
Stars of my thoughts
My smile, my tears
Falling down like stones
I leave my universe, my music
My poems never written
My death, my last will

Take me away
Wherever you may roam just hold
My portrait inside your thoughts

Don’t let me fade
Like the smoke of pinewood
Don’t let go the memory of me and you

5. The Great Fire

[Music: A. Gori / lyrics: A. Amadori]

It was a peaceful night
And the moon was full
We were all asleep

Yet something wasn’t right
That September 2, 1666

A fire begun in the house and the shop of our King Charles’s baker in Pudding lane
Sparks from the burning home they fell on hay in the yard of the Star Inn at Fish Street Hill

The spreading flames from the inn
Set light to St. Margaret
The holy House of our Lord was on fire

It spread in waves to a warehouse where
Oil, spirits, hemp and hay were stored

Eight a.m., some six hours later, more or less
The Great Fire was halfway across London Bridge

I woke up to screams and shouting everywhere
Men came here in Seething Lane to call for me

By the time I reached for the tower
Three hundred houses were on fire

I realized disaster threatened London so I hurried off to the Court in Whitehall
With buckets, axes, ladders, squirts and fire hooks, and water from the river we fought the blaze

Everyone gave his own best
We had to build some fire breaks
And there was no other way than to pull down houses

We prayed our god to grant us strength
When our supplies became too scarce

There was so little time for action
So much to do to save our town

As we all thought it was over
The Fire was still threatening Westminster

The Duke of York prevented the disaster by ordering the destruction, of the paper house
Within five days, the fire had ravaged London, and devastation lasted, for many years

6. Black Prince

[Music: A. Gori, G. Cercato / lyrics: A. Amadori]

[The storyteller:]
Listen my friend,
Here is a tale that has to be told
Whatever the form

Back to a time
When France and England
Were both engaged in a great war

Then lived a man that outstood them all…
Still breathing through your history books….

Edward’s his name
known as the Black Prince
The Prince of Wales, he’s the King’s first son

At only sixteen
He was being knighted
Serving his arm for the right to the Crown

His unbelievable skills at war burst out
In the Norman campaign he showed what he’s worth

He came there crawling in
He’s a shimmering soul on the field
He is the Prince wearing black
Finest blade of his time

[King Edward III:]
“From up here my son, you see,
We’re bound to notice the arrival of the enemy

God give us the strength to fight
To take back what is ours
We shall never fail!”

[The storyteller:]
Then the French were defeated
Many more battles he would win
Before through the years

As if it was already written that he would never be King
All this glory and might, it just seemed so unreal

Here heading up
Pouring blood for the glory of England
Prince wearing black
Bravest knight of his land

There standing tall
He’s awaiting his time to the throne
He is the Prince wearing black
Finest blade of his time

7. Shattered Promises

[Music: A. Gori / lyrics: A. Amadori]

Staring at this blank wall
No tears in our eyes
Here we are
Although I had never thought
This day could ever come

Moments spent together
Are all that remain now
But every time I try to catch them
The feeling’s gone!

We’ve grown together all the way
Although we were not the same
Through all these years we have kept trying so hard
To reach each other’s minds

Now time has come for us to part
We’ll keep a space inside our heart
And for the rest of all that’s been
We’ll let it scatter in the wind

How can I stand the flashbacks
Overwhelming my eyes?
I’ll wait for this silence
To just swallow them all

Ever since the first day
We’d started our building
Perfection did not seem so far to us
A reign of love and trust

Now it’s clear: foundations don’t hold any more
It hurts so bad now that we feel its weight
Crunching our chests

We’re killing each other, can’t call the cops
There’s no damn law for the broken hearts
Shattered promises
Buried light years away

How can I stand the flashbacks
Overwhelming my eyes?
I’ll wait for this silence
To just swallow them all

Silence surrounding our shameful souls
Tongues paralyzed holding bitter words
Shattered promises
Buried somewhere

We gaze at each other, as daylight dies
Our choice is made and we’ll pay its price

How can I stand the flashbacks
Overwhelming my eyes?
I’ll wait for this silence
To just swallow them all

8. My Angel

[Music & lyrics: A. Gori]

It was a cold and misty winter’s night
The first date at that cinema
It was so hard to look you in the eyes

A few days after I took you to that place
We walked together, but not hand in hand

The stars above us, but nothing shined as bright as your eyes
I tried to speak, but those words don’t come easy
I was shy, so were you, my feelings were trapped in me

A sudden strength in my heart, let me tell you that our feelings
So desperately held, could really become something more, like a never ending love

You are my life, I can’t live without you
I just wanna kiss you forever and you can trust in me
When I say that we are ready to live our lives as one

I’ll do everything for you, ‘cause you’re the most precious thing in this world
When I look into your eyes, my Heart starts to beat
As fast as He can

I dreamt every night I could call you “my girl”
And you were there, giving me a chance
Lost in your grace, I swore I’d never go away

I can’t explain what happened to me
It was like a river flowing

Like it goes to the sea, so my feelings became an ocean of love
when we first kissed. Something grew in me
Somethin’ I had never felt before

You must be true to your heart, you must believe in me
my never ending dream, I’ll be always with you,
I didn’t believe in Heaven, but now I do cause

I’ve found an Angel, you give me new life
I just wanna kiss you forever and you can trust in me
When I say that we are ready to live our lives as one

I’ll do everything for you, ‘cause you’re the most precious thing in this world
When I look into your eyes, my Heart starts to beat
As fast as He can

9. Hiroshima And Nagasaki (Is This Mankind?)

[Music & lyrics: A. Gori]

Watching the sky
I saw a sparkling metal vulture coming to bring us death
Sorrow and pain
I can’t explain what I felt

Staring in agony
I tried to find the answers to that cruel tragedy
No way to escape
It still burns in me

A light, then fire and a smashing roar
Suddenly all I could see was a plain of destruction, dust and fear
Once I saw the children play
Now they are only ashes, shadows in that merciless wind

6th of August 1945 ready to take off from Tinian
The Great Artiste, Necessary Evil and keeper of Little Boy
The Enola Gay was its name

Hey Colonel Tibbets, your mom would’ve been proud to see
Her name put into history
Surely you didn’t know that you were changing
The course of that evil conflict

The T-Bridge was near, so the target reached
Hiroshima took it easy because no one thought
That just one aircraft could destroy everything

It was 8:15 when Little Boy was dropped
Then they just had to wait
Less than one minute
And 80 thousands were killed in a blink of an eye

Casting shadows across this noble land,
Is this our hopeless last stand?
Losing faith in this mankind
I wish I had never seen that we’ve lost our mind

Black rain fell on my head
And it burned instead.
We were all going insane,
All we could feel was pain.

Future seemed far away
In that damned doomsday
But it was not the end
‘cause they came again
Once again!

Once reached Kokura
There were too many clouds and Bockscar couldn’t see the ground
So they headed for Nagasaki
This second target was found

A brick in the sky
And Captain Beahan decided to release Fat Man
Another blink of an eye
And 40 thousands died!

Casting shadows across this noble land
is this our hopeless last stand?
Losing faith in this mankind
I wish I had never seen that we’ve lost our mind

War is always a failure of the man
There’s no one else to blame
We must do all that we can
So that we never forget this shame

10. Power Play

[Music: A. Gori, G. Lotti / lyrics: A. Gori]

Lost in a maze of sadness
I wonder if I’m the only one
Who feels the daily pressure
To be always judged, for what I have done

I can’t sleep safe and sound, (no more!)
And all I do is bound (to fail!)
Get me out of this hell
This paralyzing spell

I wanted to fly
Reach for the stars
But my desires were just a big lie

Now here on my own
I can see the world
Spinning around me, out of control

Locked in this cage of madness
I want to break out and renew my life
Leave all my joys and sorrows
Release the beast I’m hiding inside

I lie awake, (I’m in a fix!)
I see myself (lost in a mist!)
I’m feeling so sinful
I won’t play by the rules

I wanted to fly
Reach for the stars
But my desires were just a big lie

Now here on my own
I can see the world
Spinning around me, out of control

Suffocated by this power play
I’m a soldier of fortune, but not insane

What can I do?
Will I go the distance
And will I give up my pride?

Forgive me son
But now I am part of the crime
What is wrong and what is right
It doesn’t belong to me anymore ‘cause I’m a

Masked demon, now I choose my path
be a deathbringer or just a man

Suffocated by this power play
I’m a soldier of fortune, but not insane
Masked demon, now I choose my path
be a deathbringer or just a man

11. Black Prince (Original Version)

FLASHBACK OF ANGER LYRICS