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Look, high in the sky |
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The vultures are back |
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And at full speed they ride the heavens |
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God, they're losing their minds |
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Why do they attack? |
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The unspeakable shadows came as a surprise |
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They came by the hundred |
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They arrived without warning |
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The bringers of storm, predators of warfare |
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There soon will be bloodshed |
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The streets will be blood red |
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The Luftwaffe is ready to strike with full power |
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'I can still remember the warning siren... |
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There was much light, yet we stood in utter darkness' |
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Look, it started to rain |
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Big bombs like droplets |
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But this puddle won't be precisely of water |
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Debris all around |
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Ashes and dust |
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A domino city just waiting to fall |
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Fall like Rome or Constantinople |
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Fall like the Tower or outrageous Sodom |
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Mother of Sorrow |
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Come ease their pain |
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For your children will see no tomorrow |
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[Pre-chorus:] |
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Death from beyond |
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Death from above |
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[Chorus:] |
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Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames |
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Rotterdam, hell's breath on Earth |
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Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames |
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Rotterdam, nothing will be the same. |
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In the middle of May, 1940 |
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When no one saw it coming |
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Carpet bombing shattered Rotterdam |
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An unfair game won by stalemate |
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The Stukas wiped out almost every trace |
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Of a great city so rich in history |
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Of the many souls that died there |
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Of the heart that lost its essence |
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"Een Stad zonder hart..." |
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[Repeat pre-chorus] |
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[Chorus 2:] |
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Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames |
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Rotterdam, hell's breath on Earth |
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Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames |
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Rotterdam, gone all the same |
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[Repeat chorus] 1 |
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Again. |
