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Romantic songs of dissidence

by Kalashnikov collective

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PRAVDA THE OVERDRIVER Awaken in the mud Of the human existence She sacrifices the light Dashing on the asphalt The wind is whistling in her hear, while.... Megalopoli collapses in the lights ! As we raise our tins ! Lycanthropes are catching the moon And dancing on their inquisitor's scalps ! You can see behind the flames the stars growing pale You can feel on your mouth your blood flowing down Pravda listen to the flame's sing that devoures the neon-metropolis in a night without moon. The fluid of forgivness is flowing But her heart is too hard for the love's blade Dark is the horizon In her eyes there's the night Megalopoli collapses beetwen the lights ! As we raise our tins ! Lycanthropes are catching the moon And dancing on their inquisitor's scalps ! The last sigh echoes in the night Pravda is standing and watching the horizon Wild queen of a boundless realm Without subjects and richness, without gods and wars.
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LISA'S WINTER The city is an opaque mirror one fast gesture on the misted glass - The trees are freezed out there in the park Still skeletons in an eternal present - Mute witness of the flowing life You'll see the winter is over... Lisa feels something wrong, her man shoots in Vietnam This will be a long winter ! The sound of the snow is whispering the explosions The shoots echoes in the sky... Here we are dying in a white silence, there they are dancin' at machinegun's rhythm Run, my soldier, you can't die, Lisa's heart is pounding only for you ! Corn-flakes, milk, dietetical bisquits, the peace's banner are high at camp Here we are protesting against war, there they are praying with pagan gesture Here we are dying in a white silence, there they are dancin' at machinegun's rhythm Run, my soldier, you can't die, Lisa's heart is pounding only for you.... Lisa feels something wrong, her man shoots in Vietnam This will be a long winter ! The sound of the snow is whispering the explosions The shoots echoes in the sky...
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CRUEL INSTANTS OF YOUTH Fast as kisses without love Thin as leaf, as almighty gods... Those mute gazes in the arms of the dawn With the sun in our hands And the burnin' instants Engraved in the eyes In those emptiness... In those emptiness... In those emptiness WITHOUT END !
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FLAGS TO BURN I can hear the wind blowing Blows from distant lands Bringing something with him... That burns the silence ! The wind sighs triumphs and bitter defeats He sighs burning words of fighting and pain The stones throwed impregnated with screams Are stars falling down in a bloody sky Flags to burn, death to ideologies ! I can hear the wind whispering The name of every soldiers And every name is a machinegun's fire That burns the silence ! The wind sighs triumphs and bitter defeats He sighs burning words of fighting and pain The stones throwed impregnated with screams Stars are falling down in a bloody sky Flags to burn, death to ideologies
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BELFAST BURNS IN SARA'S EYES A black coffee, a dusky sky Sara is pulling the syntethical curtain The snow covers the icy street Now it's time, she hasn't to wait any more The snow is falling over the houses Sara bends down to get her bag She closes the door turning the key All is silence... Sara has the pride of a people of fairies The brother's blood slaughtered by war In her deep eyes there are only silver tears For all of those friends, killed over the cement In the Cafè all is quiet But perhaps her heart is pounding faster She takes a quick look and enters in the toilet She opens her bag, there's the present ! Little wirings linked to the mechanism Icy hands are shaking Tension, explosive, the timer is fixed Run Sara, RUN SARA ! Siren far away, the dimmed screams The bloody roar in the wind Snow is falling in a deep coma Another wound, another wound ! Belfast echoes of a thousand silence Of throwed rocks, of vain prayers The Irish war has killed enough ! The Irish war has killed enough.... Sara has the pride of a people of fairies The brother's blood slaughtered by war In her deep eyes there are only silver tears For all of those friends, killed over the cement
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ROTTEN FLOWERS IN THE GUNS A wire of thorns, rags, white-neon's sky Fire of hate and unexploded bomb – beware the curfew ! Open your eyes, there's no fear – the battle is now lost The fight is extinguished in the streets – you have to put some flowers on the tombs ! Another voice dies behind the sky The freedom flame is burning Rotten flowers in the guns And another fire is now bursting ! Flee soldier, don't be a hero Throw away your gun and run faster Don't listen to the drums of war Defend your brothers ! Drink to freedom for the peace for your people Water the Dreams of your country Listen to the far screams ! Flee.....without delay ! Face the wind that will be ! Another voice dies behind the sky The freedom flame is burning Rotten flowers in the guns And another fire is now bursting !
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EAST BERLIN 1980 Here there's no sea, no sun, there is no place for love Only damp cellars to make some noise under a grey dusty-cemently sky Drink my rebel fellow to your dreams Gestapo is coming with cudgels again Run to the sewer of the great formicary For you there's no tomorrow, there's no future. Records, studs, beers and whyskey, freedom will be in the last tin But shut up now ! Regime can hear us and He puts the rebels boys straight on into asylum Drink my rebel fellow to your dreams Gestapo is coming with cudgels again Run to the sewer of the great formicary For you there's no tomorrow, there's no future
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TO DIONYSUS DAYS Hidden far away from the fire Counterfeiter of the king's gold We are eating banquet of withered stars We are signing secret ways But now the wind of return is blowing Now the sun is rising up over the waves Burn the banners and unfurl the sails We will meet far away from here... Where the sun is burnin', where whyskey doesn't cost too much To the neverending days Where the name of the heretic triumphants is echoes Where the ghosts rule and men don't known the meaning of hierarchy To Dionysus Days.... We distill this nectar from the fallen petals Bitter as the sound of the swords Distilled with the darkest tears Darker than the war clouds But now the wind of return is blowing Now the sun is rising up over the waves Burn the banners and unfurl the sails We will meet far away from here... Where the sun is burnin', where whyskey doesn't cost too much To the neverending days Where the name of the heretic triumphants is echoes Where the ghosts rule and men don't known the meaning of hierarchy To Dionysus Days....
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THE WORN BANNERS OF WU Standing still on the shore after a dusty travel Drinking wine at the feet of a wordless stone God Here the sun is dancing on the adamantine waves And the autumn wind blows announcing the cold winter... Now what is left of that ancient and noble splendour ' When kings keep in hands gods' will When they are waving in vain.... The worn banners of Wu The spirit's voices are moving the clouds And the warriors' laments are rising from the ground Here where heroes are dust and human sign is vain Where the glory of the kings is corroded by insects.... Now what is left of that ancient and noble splendour ' When kings keep in hands the will of the gods, When are waving in vain... The worn banners of Wu

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"Romantic songs of dissidence" is the first Kalashnikov collective album released in 2001 on tape and reprinted in 2004 on cd with a new artwork.

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released July 3, 2001

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Kalashnikov collective Milano, Italy

Kalashnikov were born in 1996 on the dirty floor of a squat in Milano, Italy, to give vent to the adolescent restlessness of three punx. Under the drunkenness of the heavenly libertarian nectar and rejecting the ruling culture, Kalashnikov are created with the wish to put together their own utopias and passion... ... more

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