04. SAD DAYS IN ALCOLU
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Francesca Tosi
Tonight
My boy will die
By electric chair
My God!
He’s only fourteen years old!
When all
We came to find
The missing girls
We couldn’t even imagine
What was about to be
The day George Burke found them in that soggy ditch
I felt so bad and very sad
The two little girls so brutally murdered
And their killer - still out there
A hole in Mary Emma’s skull
Two inch-long cut above her eyebrow
Seven blows on Betty June’s head
A skull nothing but a mass of crushed bones
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
Sad days in Alcolu
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
Sad days
In Alcolu
Sad days
The day
He was arrested
and accused
The entire world –
collapsed under my feet!
And when
He confessed
All his crimes
A sort of dizziness
Invaded me
From that night I couldn’t sleep nor think
I feel so drained, tired and powerless
All this sounds
Absurd to me!
Oh my Lord,
What’s your purpose?
Now that you son are going to pass away
And the chair will leave you dead and mouth foaming
I will pray for your soul
I’ll try to pray for yout soul!
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
Sad days in Alcolu
We’re living sad days in Alcolu
Sad days
In Alcolu
Sad days
This song talks about the capital death of George Stinney, a boy from Alcolu in South Carolina, found guilty of the murder of two little girls and sentenced to death by electric chair. The song is singed from the point of view of George’s mother
05. DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
I’m here in Caishikou
The execution field in Beijing
And I’m going to attend
An execution by lingchi
The convict is taken to the post
He is a thin young man
A pale grin across his face
An otherworldly plastered smile
The Chief executor starts
Untying Convict's arms,
In order
To carve them
The executioner's blade
Slowly enters into the convict's left knee
The victim’s face seems "extatic"
His hair "risen"
Limbs have cut off one at time
Large chunks of skin are removed from the chest
Working on the right leg
Desarticulating it at knee level
Next to the final step
The executioner raises his knife
And stabs the convict
To the heart
Lingchi, also known as ‘Death by a thousand cuts’, ‘Lingering Death’, ‘Slow slicing’ was a form capital death used in China from 900 to 1905 when it was banned. The song tells of an execution by lingchi as seen from a foreign spectator
INTRODUCTIVE INFOS ABOUT 'COLD THIRST'
The album ‘Cold Thirst’ is focused on death penalty. All their tracks, apart the two instrumentals, are focused on capital death from many different point of views.
The title ‘Cold Thirst’ is bilateral: it can be referred to a cold power that can sentence to death a man or a woman but also to the last feelings of the victims, overwhelmed by the law.
01. WOOD AND FLIES
(Instrumental)
Music: Cliff Scott
02. I THIRST
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Here I am – in front of you
Nailed to this wooden cross
The son of God - Sentenced to death
By the law of the man
Father, forgive them
For they know not what they do
Father, forgive them
For they know not what they do
My own death is a new life
A remedy to the Adam’s transgression
The divine must be killed
To raise the human grace
I thirst
I thirst
I thirst
I thirst
My God, why have you forsaken me ?
It is - It is finished
Father, into thy hands
I committ my spirit
This song talks about the most famous sentence to death of history, the one of Jesus Christ. The lyrics are inspired to the last words of Christ on the cross
06. THE OUTSIDER
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
The sentence
From the judge
Is arrived
Capital death by Guillotine
The fact
That the sentence
Had been read out
At eight o’clock
Rather than at five o’clock
And the fact that it might have been
Completely different
And that it had been decided
Upon by men
Who change their underwear
And that it had been credited
To so vague an entity
As the French
(Or German, or Chinese) people
All these things
Really seemed to detract
Considerably
From the seriousness
Of such a decision
I opened myself
To the gentle indifference
Of the world
I had only a little time left
And I didn't want to waste it on God
I didn't want to waste it on God
I didn't want to waste it on God
I didn't want to waste it on God
I didn't want to waste it on God
If something is going to happen to me
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
I want to be there
Be there
The song is inspired to Albert Camus novel ‘The stranger’ (The outsider, in British version) and tells of the condemn to death of Meursault, the main character of the novel who inspired Meursault Omega, the name of this musical project
03 . BLOWING FROM A GUN
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Chiara Manese
I’m tied - I’m tied to a gun
In some minutes I will blow away
My head will go straight up into the air
My body will be destroyed in thousand pieces
I feel so upset
Am I living
A sort of nightmare?
It is so unreal
And yet so true
That dark feeling
So desperately near
That cold shiver
At the Nawab’s sign
I can – I can hardly understand
The stories around the Devil’s wind
I feel – I can only feel
Sorrow – for those about to die
The thick cloud of smoke
Will issue
From the muzzles
Of the cannon
The smell of the flesh
Will pervade the air
That pungent odour of blood
And burnt human flesh
Will it be flavored
By our ripped souls?
This tune talks of the execution of three English women in 1857 by blowing from a gun method by a Indian nawab as reported by local newspapers. The main character is a young girl going to die. Execution by blowing from a gun was also named Devil’s wind
07. LIMERICK MAN
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Asator Ægishjálmur
Michael was found guilty
Of the rape and murder of a nurse
Sister Katie Cooper
Aged 64
Walking back
To the hospital
On the Dublin road
She was attacked
Raped and killed
By the blind drunk man
No insanity
As claimed the defense
The clods of grass in her mouth
Discarded the argument
Sentenced to death
Despite the fact
His young wife
Was expecting a child
Sentenced to death
Despite the fact
The victim’s family
Had petioned to court
Farewell, Limerick man
You pay your moment of blackness
Farewell, Limerick man
Farewell, Limerick man
Farewell, Limerick man
You pay your moment of blackness
Farewell, Limerick man
Farewell, Limerick man
Sentenced to death
Despite the fact
The victim’s family
Had petioned to court
Sentenced to death
Despite the fact
His young wife
Was expecting a child
The song is inspired to the story of Michael Manning, sentenced to death after the murder of a nurse in 1953. The fact happened in Limerick. He was the last man executed in Ireland.
08. BLOODY BABS
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Francesca Tosi
What do you know to fight for a better life?
Fighting tooth and nail?
I can only see contempt on your empty faces
You like peeking through the keyhole
Bad-mouthing with your hair done
Nothing bad but stay away from me
I’d like you to be here in my place
Just to see if you’re afraid to die
Desperation is a familiar word to me
On the edge, knowing not what to do
Good people are always so sure they’re right
For you that know all my mistakes by heart
Tomorrow will be just another day
You, good people, are always so sure you’re right
I’m here, lost in in this holding cell
Praying with a Father I’ve never met
Why all these delays? Why do they torture me like this?
The phone is ringing and ringing again
Now they say me it’s time to go
And I realize, now I realize it’s over
I’d like to wear a blindfold
I don’t want to have to look at people
Desperation is a familiar word to me
On the edge, knowing not what to do
Good people are always so sure they’re right
Good people are always so sure they’re right
This song tells of the last hours of Barbara Graham, 32, that the press called Bloody Babs. Involved in the murder of a rich woman, she died in the gas chamber in St. Quentin prison, California in 1955 with other two partners in crime
09. PAVANE
Arrangement: Cliff Scott
Synth & Keyboards: Carlo Fiore
Instrumental: Cover version of The Fall of the House of Usher: IV Pavane in Alan Parsons Project’s Tales od Mystery and Imagination (1976-1987)
10. A TUMBLE-DOWN NOOK BY THE SEA
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Simona Guerrini
Here where the seagulls glide
Winging across the foam
Here, where the brave ships ride
Here would I make my home
A tumble-down nook by the sea
With someone that I can love
And who loves me
Happy as the winds are free
In my dear little tumble-down nook by the sea
Here, here on a shell-strewn shore
Here would I find my rest
Dreaming for evermore
With one I love the best
With one will be so dear to me
With my great love – By the sea
A tumble-down nook by the sea,
With someone that I can love and who loves me:
Happy as the winds are free,
In my dear little tumble-down nook by the sea
Here, here on a shell-strewn shore
Here would I find my rest
Dreaming for evermore
With one I love the best
With one will be so dear to me
With my great love – By the sea
Here where the seagulls glide
Winging across the foam
Here, where the brave ships ride
Here would I make my home
The song is inspired to the case of Edith Thompson, sentenced to death after she was found guilty of the murder of her husband by the hands of her lover, Frederick Bywaters, as proved by the love letters she wrote to him. The lyrics are inspired to a popular song (circa 1918), Edith loved and which dedicated to her lover, dreaming to go living with him in a tumble-down nook by the sea.
11. THE END IS NEAR
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
The end of the world is near
and I - the enlighted one
I will lead you, my followers,
To survive the Apocalypse
We of the Supreme Truth know
The U.S. will hasten the Armageddon
By starting World War III
With the Japanese forces
The predicted war
Will start in November 1995
Poison gas attacks
Continue since 1988
We are sprayed by helicopters
And other aircraft wherever we go
The use of poison gases - such as sarin -
Were clearly indicated
The hour of my death
Has been foretold
The gas phenomenon
Has already happened
The nuclear bomb
The nuclear bomb will come next
In 1997
In 1997, Armageddon will break out
In order to prevent these atrocities
Before, before it’s too late
It’s time to react
Death to the blackhearted aristocrats
Our team is now capable to produce
Thousands kilograms of sarin a year
One can kill another – One can kill
Another human being
Who continues to committ
Evil deeds
And is thus destined to go to hell
And is thus destined to go to hell
And is thus destined to go to hell
We should kill who had sold their souls to the devil
This song talks of the believes of the Aleph Japanese cult, by the words of its leader Shoko Asahara. The cult in 1995 attacked Tokyo subway with sarin. Asahara - and other members of the cult has been executed by hanging in 2018
12. TO THE CORE
Music & Lyrics: Cliff Scott
Lead Vocals: Asator Ægishjálmur
Mezzo Soprano Vocals: Lunaria Wistful
Synth & Keyboards: Carlo Fiore
Lead Guitar: Matteo Venegoni
A wiseman said the man is born free
And everywhere he is in chains
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
Narrow mountain valleys are on my way
Sorrounded by high mountains on both sides
I’m trying to get across’em in heavy rain
But watch your step, man, the ground’s so slippery
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
I’m trying to get across life in heavy rain
But watch your step, man, the ground’s so slippery
Do you know the story of John Babbacombe Lee
the man who survived three attempts at hanging him?
This song talks of the difficulties of life and the strenght to survive. This strenght to live vaguely remembers the figure of John Babbacombe Lee, who survived three attempts at hanging him. The figure of John Babbacombe Lee inspired the folk rock group who 50 years ago, in 1971, made a concept album about his story
01. ABDUCTION!
Out in the fields, on a quiet and warm October night
I was walking around, hands in pocket & deep in thought
I noticed a light, a red light in the sky
And it was getting closer, ever closer to me!
I took off on foot, while that odd egg-shaped craft
was landing down, descending upon the field
The engine died and a five-foot-tall humanoid
promptly jumped out speaking in little yelps
How the hell this could be? - I'm afraid I'm victim...
I am a victim of an abduction!
What is happening to me? - I'm dragged in!
I am victim of an abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
How the hell this could be? - I'm afraid I'm victim...
I am a victim of an abduction!
What is happening to me? - I'm dragged in!
I am victim of an abduction!
Abduction!
Abduction!
02. THE TRUTH ABOUT ADMIRAL BYRD’s “BITTER REALITY” AT EARTH’s END
We are crossing over - the small mountain range
and still proceeding northward [as best as can be ascertained].
Beyond the mountain range - is what appears to be
a valley with a small river or stream - running through the center portion!
Should be no - green valley there!
Something is wrong and abnormal here!
We should be over Ice - and Snow!
To the portside are great forests growing [on the mountain slopes!]
Our navigation Instruments - are still spinning,
The gyroscope is oscillating - back and forth!
I alter altitude to one thousand and four hundreds feet
And execute a sharp left turn [to better examine the valley]
It is green with either moss or a type of tight knit grass.
The Light here seems to be different.
I cannot see the Sun anymore.
I cannot see the Sun anymore.
We make another left turn and we spot - what seems to be a large animal of some kind - below us.
It appears to be an elephant! Oh! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! It looks more like a mammoth! This is incredible!
Yet, there it is! Decrease altitude to one thousand feet and take binoculars to better examine the animal.
It is confirmed - it is definitely a mammoth-like animal! Report this to base camp.- Report this to base camp!
Encountering more rolling green hills now.
Seventy-four degrees Fahrenheit now!
Continuing on our heading now.
Navigation instruments seem normal now.
I am puzzled over their actions. Attempt to contact base camp.
Radio is not functioning! Radio is not functioning! Radio is not functioning!
03. LITTLE MOUSE
Little mouse, are you sneaking in my child's room tonight?
She lost her tooth just two hours ago
Little mouse, are you coming with your coin or are you in trouble too?
I heard the news before
Liquidity crisis, Long-Term Strike
Higher Transport costs and Failure to ensure
Downturn impact, Scarcity of raw materials
Banking fees, Depriciation expenses
Little mouse, someone brought you to court for home invasion
The Fairy Tooth claims you stole her job
Little mouse, animal activists don't understand you
Are you exploited or is it a passion project?
Financial police: 'No cash receipt'
Rodent regulatory: 'pest control'
The Interpol 'Trafficking of milk teeth'
The syndacate: 'Membership fees'
Little Mouse!
Little Mouse!
What can I say to my child in the morning
If under the pillow no coin is returned?!
The tears will flow and cries will shatter
The eardrums, the crystals, the mirrors, the glasses
No! - No! No! No! No! No! NO! No! No! No!
That's not gonna happen here!
No turning back - No returning
No turning back - No returning
No turning back
Little mouse, Little mouse!
Little mouse, Little mouse!
Little mouse, little mouse!
Little mouse, little mouse!
Liquidity crisis, Long-Term Strike
Higher Transport costs and Failure to ensure
Downturn impact, Scarcity of raw materials
Banking fees, Depriciation expenses
No turning back - No returning
No turning back - No returning
No turning back ---------------------------Little mouse!
No turning back - No returning
No turning back - No returning
No turning back ---------------------------Little mouse!
04. WAR OF THE WOLVES
My darling, you don't seem to comprehend
What's wrong with you I don't understand
This world is programmed for running fast
And someone wants you to run [faster and faster]
Don't think twice and by somebody else's mind
Leave your fears behind [and be ready for war]
Let the leaf - to follow the path of the river
And morning dew will slip away [as your tears]
The sound of the drums - echoes far away from here
The sound of who he doesn't play [for the brotherhood]
Reality is overwhelmed by fiction
A farcical condition critical
The pack of wolves is howling in the forest
Determinated and filled - with pure life force
Getting ready - and Waiting for the right time
To attack and fight
The pack of wolves is howling in the forest
Determinated and filled - with pure life force
Getting ready - and Waiting for the right time
To attack and fight
The War of the wolves had already started
And there can be no truce for you, dirty deceivers
The War of the wolves had already started
And there can be no truce for you, dirty deceivers
The sound of the drums - echoes far away from here
The sound of who he doesn't play [for the brotherhood]
Reality is overwhelmed by fiction
A farcical condition critical
05. H.O.R.+U.S.
Oh Señorita, wanna taste my big pepita?
Oh Señorita, wanna taste my big pepita?
Oh Señorita, wanna taste my big pepita?
Oh Señorita, wanna taste my big pepita?
06. BLACK SUNDAY
Princess Asa will reborn
Some drops of blood will turn her in life
Asa is coming to revenge
Her brother's descendance will pay with life
Sentenced to death and hammered in the flesh
Vowing revenge for the centuries to come
Burning at the stake with hate in her eyes
The witch is dying but the curse is put on
Princess Asa will reborn
Some drops of blood will turn her in life
Asa is coming to revenge
Her brother's descendance will pay with life
Telepathically ordering to her paramour Javuto
To rise from his grave and going to the castle
Dr. Kruvajan is picked up and led to her crypt
More drops of blood in change of eternal life
Princess Asa will reborn
Some drops of blood will turn her in life
Asa is coming to revenge
Her brother's descendance will pay with life
Dr. Kruvajan is turned into her servant
By Asa's command, he will kill for her
Kruvajan enters in Vajda's room
The murder is done, the curse is done
Now Asa plans to drain the young Katia of her life
To realize her ambition, immortality
But Dr. Gorobec and a priest found Kruvajan
And soon realize he's become one of the undead
Princess Asa will reborn
Some drops of blood will turn her in life
Asa is coming to revenge
Her brother's descendance will pay with life
Princess Asa will reborn
Some drops of blood will turn her in life
Asa is coming to revenge
Her brother's descendance will pay with life
Yavuto finds Katia and takes her to Asa
And soon she begins to take her blood
The witch is turning into young Katia
Katia is lost in her body and her mind
Katia is lost in her body and her mind
Katia is lost in her body and her mind
07. CHARADE '72
Instrumental
08. THE LAST REMNANT
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
We are the last remnant.
The prophecies of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation
Already happened
Just grand architecture
There are no clothing, no traces, nothing.
The people, the animals, and those in between,
Everyone and everything vanished.
The current inhabitants of Earth have no history.
We have no history.
Everything is mirrored here in the physical.
Higher dimension properties
Are mirrored in lower dimensions.
We live our life and experience
We pass away and join the perfect energy state
To process
Our accumulated life experiences
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Churches, cathedrals, mosques, and other buildings of worship,
Were originally aetheric power stations
During the reign of the Tartarian Empire
They functioned as hospitals
The crosses on top of these buildings
Were used as aetheric electrical antennas
Connected to the rebar
Embedded throughout the building’s structure
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past
10. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MAJORANA
His body was never found - Someone believed he had committed suicide
Other thought that he may have defected to the Soviet Union - or that he may have become a monk
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
In 1938 - after he turned reclusive - and then disappeared.
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
Did he leave for Venezuela - under the assumed surname of Bini?
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
Rome prosecutor Laviani - declared the case closed
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
No criminal evidence in his disappearance
°His body was never found - Someone believed he had committed suicide
Other thought that he may have defected to the Soviet Union - or that he may have become a monk
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
Majorana Equation and Majorana Fermions - are named after him, today
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
The equation is consistent with quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
He developed a theoretical basis for the mass spectrum of elementary particles.
No one really knew - what happened to Majorana
He postulated the 'existence of the neutrino - years before - it is discovered experimentally
His body was never found - Someone believed he had committed suicide
Other thought that he may have defected to the Soviet Union - or that he may have become a monk
11. DEMON PAZUZU
When your father rules the underworld,
You're going to end up with some awesome powers
You can spread disease and death for miles around
By your dry breath
When your father rules the underworld,
You can amuse yourself with your evil powers
Carrying the malaria on the wind
To infect unwitting people.
Demon Pazuzu, you command the southwest and west winds
Blowing through the lands of Babylon and Assyria
Demon Pazuzu, you have the power
To cause famine, locusts and destructive storms
You demon-god
Only partially human
The rest of your frame
Is fleshed out to fear your people
A scorpion's tail, eagle talons,
Two sets of wings and a fierce lion's head.
The people invoke you - ask your protection
They Hang plaques in sick's person room
They think you're powerful enough to ward off ghosts
And to take their illnesses away
They would wear your visage around their neck
Or around their wrist
Demon Pazuzu, you command the southwest and west winds
Blowing through the lands of Babylon and Assyria
Demon Pazuzu, you have the power
To cause famine, locusts and destructive storms
Demon Pazuzu
11. THE FOUNDATION OF RHODESIA (ZIMBABWE)
In 1888,
At the instigation of Cecil Rhodes,
the missionary John Moffat
was sent to Matabeleland
to use his father's reputation
to persuade
the king Lobhengula
Neither the Boers nor the Portuguese
would be permitted
to gain concessions,
the king wanted
British protection
and unhesitatingly signed the treaty
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
The Moffat Treaty
Solemnly proclaimed
“Peace and amity - shall continue forever
between Her Britannic Majesty,
Her subjects, and the Amandebele people.”
Moreover, king Lobenghula
Promised to refrain
From entering into
“Any correspondence or treaty
With any Foreign State or Power"
And by the Rudd Concession,
Britain had exclusive mining rights
and agreed that Rhodes' company
would be granted to use them
Queen Victoria signed the charter in 1889
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
So Rhodes sent the Pioneer Column,
A group of white settlers
Protected by well-armed
British South Africa Police (BSAP)
And guided by the big game hunter
Frederick Selous,
Through Matabeleland and into Shona territory
He established Fort Salisbury (Harare)
In 1893–94,
With the help of their new maxim guns
The BSAP would go on to defeat the Ndebele
In the First Matabele War,
A war which also resulted
In the death of King Lobengula
And the death of most of the members of the Shangani Patrol.
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
South Rhodesia Zimbabwe North Rhodesia Zambezia
Then the Ndebele were led
By their spiritual leader Mlimo
Against the white colonials
And thus began the Second Matabele War.
After months of bloodshed,
Mlimo was found and shot
By the American scout
Frederick Burnham
And soon thereafter Rhodes
Walked unarmed into
The Ndebele stronghold
In Matobo Hills
And persuaded the impi
To lay down their arms,
Ending the revolt.