"So, boys, just a reminder: to join the Chestnut-tour in Filzetta Valley you've got to sign up to father Egidio, down in the parish office. To all the smart-asses out there, remember: no Mass, no Chestnut-tour, I hope I made myself clear" 1
Elio, Elio, E-E-E-E-E-Elio, Elio and the Troubled Stories [...]
Stay with me, Lord, at sundown
Stay with me, and we shall be at peace
Drive me crazy, hurt me 2
Night shall never fall down again
We'll take our brothers to you
We'll take them on the streets
Life of my own life
I don't care of your past
I don't care who you've been with
In the streets of the world, o Lord
I don't care of your past
I don't care who you've been with
Stay with me, with me
"By the way, it's useless to rehearse for the choir on Wednesday's evening if on Sunday the only ones to show up are the usual three - sorry about the word - dupes"
Abramo, don't go, don't leave
Don't leave your home
What do you think you'll find?
The street is always the same
But people are different
It's going to be your enemy
Where do you think you can go?
Born, born, born to be Abraham
Born to be Abraham
Go and proclaim my Good News
(Word of Yahveh)
Leave your country
Go where I will show you
(Word of Yahveh)
Leave your country
Go where I will show you
The nets were abandoned on the shore
Fishermen left them there
They went with Jesus
The crowd who sang "Hosanna" is gone
But silence seems to suggest
A question to the Twelve
Born, born, born to be Abraham
Born to be Abraham
You know what you're leaving
What will your Lord give you?
Descendants, a land and a promise
(Word of Yahveh)
Leave your country
Go where I will show you
(Word of Yahveh)
Leave your country
Go where I will show you
Word of Yahveh...
The word of Yahveh
Is the word of Yahveh
Abraham, don't go, don't leave
It's not like I'm Bhagwan
Who just died 3
I am Yahweh
"And one last thing: those ladies, 13 - 14 years old, showing up in our Youth Club made up like strumpets should know that this is neither the place, nor the time to waste time with 'those' things, because we're here to grow up, to become adults, to become a community and to become one another's neighbor. We know that all young people are defensless when..."
1. this is the first of three spoken parts in which the band keyboardist, Rocco Tanica, pretends to be a priest or someone in a parish giving comunications to the young members of the community. Filzetta Valley is a fictional place.2. these lyrics are taken (and mixed) from a religious song and a Neapolitan song from the '50s.3. the Indian guru better known as Osho had died a few months before the release of the single