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