1. |
The Reckoning (Intro)
01:12
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THE RECKONING
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
L'infausto volgere
dell'uomo ad Inferi
Malsana eredità dei posteri
Qual tempio eressero
di torri altissime
e simulacri a loro immagine
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2. |
Apocalypse
03:34
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APOCALYPSE
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Tell your children we're starting celebrations
Such a good time for the newer generations
Everybody's invited to the end of the world
you really can't miss this show
you gotta watch it
Now
Don't wonder why the animals are dying
they were bound
to be the victims of the system
Now
don't ask yourself the origin
of what we've done somehow
the whole world is burning down
(chorus)
Welcome to the farwell party
you're all invited in
any dress code ain't required
we're glad to let you in
Bring your family and join us
and take a souvenir
Everyone of you is welcome
to the end to the apocalypse
Let your souls be prepared for annihilation
You've been seduced by the charm of degradation
Everybody's to blame, all equally got to face
The worst and biggest disgrace
You gotta watch it
Now
No matter if the glacieres are just melting
All around
Let's keep on devastating the world
Now
Don't worry about the fateful hour you are heading to
The time is over for repentance
(chorus)
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3. |
Enemy
03:59
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ENEMY
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Enemy
You are my enemy
And now you're digging up my own desires
Breathlessly
It's like I'm drowning in
The toxic fumes of the world on fire
Ah ah ah
You wanna charge me again of blasphemy
Ah ah ah
I hate your system cuz' I am communist
Now listen to my words
(chorus)
You're just a corrupt bastard
You're just the one who'd deserve to die
You destroyed all of the rivers
Destroyed all the forests
The extinction's around the corner oh oh oh oh
You made a mess of the whole world
You're just the king of the brainless fools
You're the worst of the haters
The worst of the forgers
The end is around the corner oh oh oh oh
Parody
You are just a parody
Of a sub-human breed of fucking lier
Defenitely
I'm your antagonist
And I will set what you believe in on fire
Ah ah ah
You wanna charge me again of blasphemy
Ah ah ah
I hate your system cuz' I am communist
Now listen to my words
(chorus)
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4. |
Artemisia
03:24
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ARTEMISIA
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
I was wrong
I wanna say
Some words and try to explain
The reason of my feelings
As the world is going to take
Another peace of mine
Of my useless life
I walk a lonely road
Whenever I may roam
This sense of desperation
Makes me feel
The void of my illusions
I can't see
Oh no I can't believe
The world is dying
(chorus)
Darkness
Flowing higher
All the days I was there
To embrace you and make you feel like fire
Want to aspire
To improve yourself now
And make feel like nothing
Don't you understand
I was clay inside your hands
You shaped all of my feelings
With your skill and perseverance
Then you dropped behind
The full meaning of this life
I really gotta go
No matter if I was
The centre of the universe for you
When you were good
To make me fall in love
Now it's all dead and gone
That's gonna hurt you
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5. |
Sick Like Hell
03:34
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SICK LIKE HELL
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Let me know who I am
My reputation
Let me know what to do
Cuz I don't know
Make me fill in the deep
Of my frustration
Just to watch the wreckage
Of my soul
All I wanted to know
All I wanted to do
All I was asked to give to the whole world
All the memories in me
All the things I believe
Are just leading me to the nowhere
(chorus)
Have I ever told you
You're my wishing well
But I never got through you
Since I feel sick like hell
All I got is a fake
All I got is the same
Imitation of me
In a wasted life
Everybody takes me for the losing one
Cuz I never found my way and I just want to run
From the passing of time
From the worries of life
In so far I am so weird
I don't need to change
Spare me now all your reasons
Your reaction
To my way of living
I don't want
Don't be dull
Don't you ask for abdication
Whoever I used to be is long gone
All I got in my life
Was a trick of my mind
A delusional vision of the whole world
All the devils in me
Helping me to relieve
All the pain that I feel as I grow old
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6. |
The Preachers
03:45
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THE PREACHERS
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
It rose over this century
Out of the rules and the bounderies
The rage, so old and powdery
Sired by fake news as a strategy
(pre-chorus)
Now it's in your head
Like a power surge
You can't control
(chorus)
I just barely know your name
And you're just preaching at me
Stay away from me
Out of my place
Don't wanna hear your words
Conform to their dominion
The pervasive haze of technocracy
They engraved the fear inside of you
The seed of ignorance and mediocrity
(pre-chorus)
(chorus)
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7. |
Tempesta
04:30
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TEMPESTA
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
The time is ripe
and the circle is closed
nothing to win and nothing left to lose
They covered the sun
and poisoned the sky
is it just the last day for the mankind
SHOUT
you're better off dead
no, don't you distrust
the last one standing is just down on his luck
No chance for the brave
no place for the one
who wants to face their cynical wrath
(chorus)
Come on Come on
Hurry
Come on Come on
The piercing scream of Earth
let's celebrate our self destruction
Come on Come on
Hurry
Come on Come on
Now tell me what to say
let's celebrate our self destruction
Don't mourn, bow your head
You have been fortold
Spare me your whining
And keep on playing your role
The warning was clear you never would have believed
This is the price you have to pay now
SHOUT
The world's burning down
The end's getting near
You are a part of the engine but the truth is so drear
As long as you can
Hold on to your lies
Reality is warped inside your sick mind
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8. |
Virus
04:46
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VIRUS
(music & lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Do you really think
I'm fucking weirdo
You're still watching me
Cuz' I am alive
You're a thuggish
Feeling like a hero
A fascist asshole in my mind
Na, na, na, na
Your frustrations
Your repressed feelings
Just a loser
You ain't worth a dime
You feel bold
You little Mussolini
You become a ship
When you are alone
Na, na, na, na
(chorus)
You're just an aberration
A freak of nature without brain
Ain't worth consideration
You're just the shame of the human race
I'm coming for you
To elemenate you
Knucklehead
You came from the gutter
You're a member of the Aryan race
I am so proud of you
My little bastard
Just no trace of life is in your brain
Na, na, na, na, na
(chorus)
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9. |
This Bed Of Loneliness
05:26
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THIS BED OF LONELINESS
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
You watched me dance
Shrouded in a cloud of brightness
A blurred image
In the light of thousand candles
You want me now
Like I was in the early days
You watch me now
like I'm dying without a trace
(chorus)
I don't know why
I don't know when
I lost my inner cognizance
What have I done
To bring myself
on to this bed of loneliness
No
don't care
for me babe
for this emptyness
Oh no
don't cry
for me darling
for this suffering
A silent frame
Made by my dying whispers
I want to abstein
From fighting the world like a drifter
You want me now
To react to this apathy
Demure and cowed
Since I've got nothing left to feel
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10. |
Sewer Ratt
03:16
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SEWER RATT
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
"Bleeding heart"
Don't call me "bleeding heart"
I ain't that kind of dumb
Who will silently complain
I ain't just the one
Who's waiting for a brawl
Who got a loaded gun
I will hang you again upside down
Ratt
Sewer ratt
You're a trailer park
Mister No-One
Hard
It's so hard
To stand you again
Mr Coward
(chorus)
There will come a day
When everyone of you will get out of my
face
What to say
I really disapprove your bullshits
Now it's the time
To kill you
You ain't worth a dime
I can't do otherwise
You're fucking old and you deserve it
Gory hands
I see your gory hands
Each time you go to Mass
And you pray your Lord to save you
Viciously
You keep your eyes on me
You want me not to breathe
You're just acting like a spoilt child
Suck
You just suck
You disgusting creeping little vermin
Mud
In the mud
It's your house
For all the coke you're snorting
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11. |
Dark Love
04:21
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DARK LOVE
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Tell me now the reason
For your teary eyes
You know I was never meant to be
The owner of your life
Don't take me
Don't take me for the one who was having doubts
Listen
Listen to my words and try to figure out
(chorus)
You're not my own
Take your life back without repentance
Just without any sense of resentment
All is over no more time for a change of heart
You're not my own
Even though the future's uncertain
Despite of our love and its greatness
Now it's time to take your life right in your hands
You're still ignated by the flame
Of a deceiving love
It was just a forged perception
Of what can save your bleeding heart
Don't use me
Don't use me just to fill the void within your eyes
Despise me
Despise me and try to hold back all the pain inside
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13. |
Orfeo (bonus track)
06:26
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ORFEO
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
L'ETTERNO VOLGER DE L'ETEREE SPERE
OGNI MILL'ANNI MI RIDA' LA VISTA TUA
QUALE MALSANA SORTE
DOPO Sì BREVI NOZZE
PERSEFONE NEL REGNO SUO T'ACCOLSE
E GIA' SULFUREA PENA COR RIPIGLIA
IMMANE ATTESA ED INFINITA VEGLIA
UN VANO SOLILOQUIO
LUNGA BESTEMMIA IRRISA
INOPINATA APPARI IN COTAL GUISA
EVANESCENTE IMMAGO
SILENTE SIMULACRO
NELL'AMPIO TUO FLUENTE PEPLO, CANDIDO COME MAI
(CHORUS 1)
DOV'E' QUEL TUO SORRISO COSA NE RESTA MAI
DI TUE SEMBIANZE
VILIPESE DAL TEMPO CHE FU
NON V'E' DEI FALBI CAPEGLI
E DEGLI OCCHI L'INTENSO LUCOR
FIGURAR NON PUO'
ALCUN MAI QUEL TUO ANTICO SPLENDOR
E PUR PIU' ASSAI CH'INNANTE TE CONOSCO
SOVVIEN MEMORIA DI QUEL Dì NEFASTO
O MIO PERDUTO BENE
FERAL VENEN TE SPENSE
LEVATA PRECE MAI FU Sì DOLENTE
E A RICERCAR TUO SPIRTO AL FIN RISOLSI
D'ADDIVENIRE MECO A LUI RIVOLSI
ALL'IPOGEO REGGENTE
MIO DIMANDAR INSUETO
DI VOLGER GUARDO RETRO IMPOSE IL VETO
O ANNICHILITA SPEME
TUA BRAMOSIA Sì FECE
REPENTE CEDERE AL DISIO
STOLIDO FU GIA' MAI
(CHORUS 2)
PERCHE'? QUAL DEMONE INGORDO T'INVASE E TUO
RAZIO PLAGIO'
E L'ALMA TUA
VITTRICE MORTE RECUPERO'
PERCHE'? QUALE INSAZIO CAPRICCIO
INDARNO IN TUO CUORE DESTO'
DACCHE' MIO AMOR
SEMPITERNA SCIAGURA RECO'
TU NO, NULLA PERDESTI
GIA' MAI, NéENT'ALTRO MAI FOSTI
IMPROVVIDA INSENSATA VOGLIA DI AMARTI
DA QUESTO TARTARO CERCAI INVANO DI TRARTI
MA IL VERACE INFERNO INVERO E' QUI
TRA VOI VIVENTI
(chorus 1 + chorus 2)
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14. |
Lucifer (bonus track)
06:01
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LUCIFER
(Davide Catucci)
Your time is flowing away
In so far as you live in vain
Muddled's the thought that you all have a sense
Within the line of a greater plan
(chorus I)
I am that one again
Who has always believed in the goodnes of men
And it's still me
Engaged in the suffering of the human kind
That God gave the world
Oh Why? I can't find a way
To break those heavy chains
I'd like to hear and fulfil your prayers
He ripped out my wings and then cast me to hell
(chorus II)
I am the one known by many names
I'm the fallen one I am the renegade
I have a dream for I want to set you free
Lest the hatred of God bends your will
You were told that God is the light
God is the saviour
And you were even taught
To kill your brothers in the name of God
And for his glory
Cause maybe God is a murder, God is a lier
(chorus I)
(chorus II)
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15. |
Limbo (bonus track)
04:17
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LIMBO
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
We are trapped in a dance hall
The music is pounding around
The crowd is a monster
Who's catching us inside out
Now turn it up up up
I wanna feel that sound inside of me
Now turn it up up up
I wanna feel the people over me
(pre-chorus)
You gotta watch me
You gotta feel me
You gotta hear me now
(chorus)
You gotta hear me come on
You gotta listen to me carefully
And I will shout it loud
You ain't what you think to be
You oughta know it come on
That you won't ever change and bend my will
You know I am very proud
of my personal way to be
We are caught in a limbo
Just unable to express ourselves
The weirds and the heroes
They never deserved respect
Now turn it up up up
The party takes until the end of time
Now turn it up up up
So let your body melt into the vibe
(pre-chorus)
(chorus)
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16. |
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I'LL BE YOUR SLAVE
(music and lyrics: Dave Shadow)
Am I awake
Or am I a simple man
Lost in the universe
Tonight
I want to follow you
To the promised land
I'll love your eyes
And I'll worship your lips
Until my suicide
Tonight
We'll keep on falling apart
And leave this worthless life
(chorus)
I'll be your lover
I'll be your slave for life
All I want and need is you
And I will never
I won't dissever
All of my dreams
From the sense and the notion of you
Lost in the memory of you
Am I insane
Cause I desire you
More than my happiness
You scar within me
For the rest of my days
And I can't even hide
I stand before you
Just to drink from your lips
The nectar of your love
Tonight
We'll keep on watching the stars
Until the end of time
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Dave Shadow Rome, Italy
Dave Shadow is an italian singer, multi- instrumentalist, author, composer, arranger and producer
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