All songs written and arranged by: MDA
Lyrics by: MDA
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Recorded at: Soundtrack Studio; The Crypt; Eurock Studio
Mixed at: D:PoT Recording Arts Studio
Mix Engineer: Fabrizio “Simoncia” Simoncioni
Assistant Mix Engineer: Marco Romanelli, Matteo Niccolai
Mastered at Metropolis Studios – London: Tim Young

MDA: Guitars, Spanish Laud, Mandolin, Stick ,Bass, Keyboards, Percussions
Nad Sylvan: Lead and Backing Vocals, Backing Vocals Arrangement
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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Crazy dreamer, that’s the way they’re used to call you
’cause your free will fills their life with fear
Make it happen don’t be fooled by Doom & Kismet
Your being, dear friend, ain’t in our Stars
Climb the summit of the mountain. Prove yourself. You are right
If you fail don’t quit the game,
the more you try the closer you are to a win
Dream on, Live on. We’re what we choose to be
Don’t be worried – Just break free
Freewill
Freewill
Wanna free my soul
Wanna gotta let you know
Fold back your wings, I’m the Fate you can’t control
Don’t try to make plans. I disagree
Fallen Angels, warning for your restless soul
Free will exists only as a Sin
So you are so sure to be the painter of your own life
That’s the rope I firmly hold, the more you try the more I tighten it
Even when you go for the things I want you to buy
Don’t be sorry. Just join in
Sweet screaming voices
keep on fighting inside the human being
Promoting their God & Goods as the one and only
Sirens TV network, broadcasts commercials promising
free, or nearly, daily manna of happiness
And discounted Paradise’s weekend tickets
Could you ask for more?
Believing in them would make life easier
Though far more boring. Wouldn’t it Mr. Captain?

MDA: Guitars, Lap Steel Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Percussions
Nad Sylvan: Lead and Backing Vocals, Backing Vocals Arrangement
Simona Rizzi: Backing Vocals
Cristiana Polegri: Backing Vocals – Sax
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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Change alone is eternal
Perpetual, Immortal
Taking nothing for granted
It’s the only way to live
Mix the pieces of your life
With the pledges from her lovely eyes
Trusting it will work out fine, but
it’s just not a matter of shaking up the box right
The only thing you have to do is…
Keep going
You gotta keep
Keep going. Keep going. Keep going
You gotta keep
Keep going. Keep going
You gotta keep going. Keep going, no mater where you are
Sometimes I feel as if nothing’s really happened
It’s all like a dream, where nothing last for long. Isn’t it?
How did I get here? Somewhere between the light and dark
‘Cause I haven’t got a clue,
there must be something that went wrong
if you are reading these lines, yeah
The countless faces I’ve met
Keep on changing their mindset
People move along unforeseeable paths,
away from here, so…
The only thing I’ve got to do is…
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going. Keep going
Keep going. Keep going
You gotta keep going

MDA: Guitars, Stick, Bass, Keyboards, Percussions
Nad Sylvan: Lead and Backing Vocals, Backing Vocals Arrangement
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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Sitting on a bus, here I am
Old memories in my ears
They saw me growing up
It looks like home to me, here I am
Redolent streets my mind has already walked through
I almost recognize them
People get on and off this crowded stage
They play their part with no sound at all
It’s like a silent ritual dance
Do they notice me? I can’t tell
‘Till someone’s eyes meet mine
He looks at me as through a mirror
A shiver down my spine
Who is who?
But in no time he gets off into the street
I follow him
It’s a very simple step to take
but I feel like I’m moving in slow motion
An endless moment, ’till my feet touch the ground
A multicolour subtle fog wraps the streets
Everything looks unreal but familiar
It’s like as if I fell down the rabbit hole
People move around me in chaotic order
Bright, shining, acid minds
Some stand all alone among a hundred staring eyes
Some gathered together in bands
In a whirl of lapels, cuffs, sleeves, hems, ties and collars
A Quant Collection walks this boulevard
And the dusk spreads around its colours
Revealing the coming of a new mid-summer night
The city wears its glowing, alluring dress
I’m dragged by a kind of human flood
There is no pain or fear, rather a pleasant swing
When a hand takes me away from this peaceful wave
I meet my Double’s eyes again
Just the time to spot a hint of a smile upon his face
and suddenly he moves away
But looks like he wants me to follow him
I yield to my mysterious Guide’s will
There is something strange in the way I move
It’s like a kind of magic. I am sliding instead of walking
A sailor on an imaginary boat, where no rudder steers the way
and keeps being driven on by a hidden will above an emerald haze
Along Old Father Thames’ banks some familiar faces
turn lyrics into real life
Each time I slow down like a tourist bus
a character I have sung for so long waves at me
And every time I stop the crowd growes bigger
Joining the procession, strolling behind my virtual boat
They make me feel a part of this surreal Parade
The last stop must have been Forest Road
The remains of a battle are still on the ground
Astonished, doubting my own sight I think this trip will drive me insane
Sketches of memorys blend with fantasy and nothing is but what is not
A strange, warm wind comes arising now
At the first light of dawn
They march like a disciplined platoon after the right drill command
The fog thickens at Southbank
That’s where they’re heading
And row upon row they disappear accompanied by a marching drum
It’s all clear now, here I am
Where everything began
It’s all clear now, here I am
Strolling through the past
I’m alone now, or so it seems
My Double should be somewhere around here
“Hello” cries a voice in the tide. I turn my head and…
He stands upon the water and looks at me with different eyes
“Did you enjoy the show?” he says with an ironic tone of voice
A question is my answer
Is that a dream? I’ve got bats in the belfry?
“Oh no, no you… you ain’t away with the fairies
That’s the world you’d like to live in
The dream to be dreamed
The show to play in
But it’s all gone now. Lost in the past
People, bands, dreams and passions are all old toys
forgotten in the attic”
and smiling at me, he sinks into The River’s waters
Into The River’s waters
A voice takes me back to where I was
“22 to P.C.”
Sitting on a bus, here I am
Old memories in my ears
They saw me growing up
Sitting on a bus, here I am
I swear I see something flying high above four chimneys
Would you believe it?

MDA: Guitars, Mandolin, Stick, Bass, Keyboards, Percussions
Robbie Wyckoff: Lead Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Backing Vocals
Cristiana Polegri: Backing Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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Dream on *dream on* worn-out heart of mine
Don’t let the darkness hide away your sun again
Wait for that glimmer of light on the horizon
Sometimes the light can be so hard to find
You should know, my friend
Coming back home where your past lives
have shape, smell, colours and tears
Is not the same as never leaving
It’s just like a necessary cure, a merciful poison
To fill this emptiness
Turning back the wheel
to the faded frames of the happiest days
When reality hurts
and the strength bleeds……well…
I’m back again
Each time I’m down on my knees
In the darkest of my days, days of my life
I unfold the sails of a boat with no name
And set the prow towards Ithaca’s docks
My mind is full of memories gathering dust
*Ashes to ashes – dust to dust*
Some cold as a razor blade
Some warm me up like a midnight hug
But all are kept inside crystal displays
They stand in lines like marble gravestones in a neglected memorial
It’s like an abandoned museum
In a desert land
“Welcome back home” says a ripped banner
waving on the crumbled facade
There’s no ticket at the door, no visitors, no guests
The sound of footsteps would frighten you away
But…It’s home to me

MDA: Guitars, Spanish Laud, Mandolin, Bass, Stick, Keyboards, Percussions
Robbie Wyckoff: Lead and Backing Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Backing Vocals
Cristiana Polegri: Backing Vocals, Sax
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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We all search for happines
It’s what we all always do
From the first breath that we take, ’till the last tear we’ll cry
You might think it’s the best kept secret
Hidden under lock and key, a big deep hole to dig
A place, a thought, a state of mind
A shining gem as good as gold
But all that glitters ain’t gold
New day
New life
New pain
Next station on my road
New night
New love
New lie
Next station on my road
New God and faith
New Evil to blame
New ark
Next station on my road
New birth
New eyes
New joy
Next station on my road
By the waterside, a distant look inside my eyes
Standing by the shore, an unknown ocean ahead of me
The dawn of a new ribirth will last as long as a breath
Blink of an eye will find you at the starting line again
In a growing circular breeze
My armor has worn out thin
Showing a new slice of life cut through the skin
But it still might drag me down
There’s no right or wrong, nowhere to hide
Switch off the light, ’till you see in the dark
To spot it in the landscape, with your eyes closed
Driven by your own mistakes. Unlearn the fake folk’s rule
And then…
You’ll find yourself wondering: “How long have I got?”
All your love and passion
won’t be roots for a growing tree
The last leaf is turning brown
And your time is running low
It’s your turn to cry Roy’s tears
There’s no one ahead of you in the row
New day
New life
New pain
Next station on my road
New night
New love
New lie
Next station on my road
New God and faith
New Evil to blame
New ark
Next station on my road
New birth
New eyes
New joy
Last station on my road

MDA: Guitars, Mandolin, Bass, Keyboards, Percussions
Göran Edman: Lead and Backing Vocals, Backing Vocals Arrangement
Simona Rizzi: Backing Vocals
Cristiana Polegri: Backing Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
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Some red wispy clouds, slipping over a light blue sky
A blazing sunset is about to be staged
A new night, a new day
A face on the wall, wants me to fly away, away from here
There’s a brand new life waiting for me, somewhere else
…so it says
Should I stand right here and let my just sprouted roots grow stronger?
Should I lie down on this comfortable bench pleased with the things that I have?
Get on the last train and run away?
I wonder why here
I wonder why now
I wonder why you
The right place to stay
The right time to go
The right one for me
So many different roads
Don’t know how to choose from them
Nowhere to go but everywhere
The rails seem to have no end
They are leading my thoughts through the setting sun
Beyond the horizon, somewhere, somehow
Will they take me there?
Where I could be a stranger again
Will they take me there?
A stranger again. Even to myself
And I know this feeling
I’ve had it before
I can’t part with it
I can’t part with it

Produced written and arranged › MDA
except:
‘Our Trail Of Tears’ written › MDA / Puzzle
All lyrics › MDA
except:
‘Tell Me Why’, ‘Black Stare’ › MDA / Odette Albani
‘Our Trail Of Tears’ › Marcello Catalano
‘Snowbound’ › Sham Hinchey
Recorded, engineered and mixed › MDA
Acoustic guitars session engineer › Maurizio Capitini
Additional post-pro engineer › Fabrizio Facioni
Recording studio › Soundtrack Studio, Revolver studio
Mastered › Sue Brown
Mastering studio › The Crypt Mastering
All photos › Pamela Pompei

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Odette Albani: Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Fabiola Torresi: Back Vocals
Susanna Stivali: Back Vocals
Sara Berni: Back Vocals
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Standing in this shattered world
Wipe the past away
While the brightest dreams are falling down
I’m just searching for the way
And the beating of my heart, pounding loud
Asks the skies
Tell me why…
No answer came from up above
No sound that I could use
All those dreams I can’t replace
No seed to start a bloom
And the pieces of my life, spinning ‘round
This barren room
Tell me why

MDA: Guitars, Stick, Piano, Rhythmic programming, Keyboards, Lyrics
Odette Albani: Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Susanna Stivali: Back Vocals
Sara Berni: Back Vocals
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Looking down, through the window a glance over my soul
sinking down, through the deepness I’m waiting…
Something I can understand something that I know
hoping it will seem worthwhile and meaningful
And the world, outside my window seems dense, cars drifting slow
raining down, like a blanket so silent…
My dreams and countless regrets drowning in this maze,
through this dripping window pane, nothing’s real
Memories crash, on ripping waters
against this wall of recrimination and ice
memories crash, and hide away the truth
and all my mistakes and guilt, all I see is just a black stare
reflected in the glass and all the doors slammed shut
I wish I could wipe all these raindrops away, and see clearly now
it’s all out there just a glimpse in the distance, just out of reach
maybe if I run I’ll be able to catch it, to make it mine
then I’ll find my way, back home from this wrong place

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Stick, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
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There’s a place where dreams come from
ain’t so easy road, not at all
and it’s hard to find it if your mind is that wrong
It’s a place you’d better watch in
just take a big breath then dive deeply into it
and your eyes will see what you’ve always been see the light, the heat
One song can change your life, if you sing it loud
one soul can warm your tired arms
one bowl can feed the crowd if it’s full of love
one love will let you shine.
Don’t be afraid to care, smile at someone else
when the night comes down, just unlock your heart, share the light the heat
One song can change your life, if you sing it loud
one cloud means the sky will cry
one tree will thank the cloud, for those drops of life
one love will get you high
One song can change your life, if you sing it loud
one soul can warm your tired arms
one man can change the world, giving peace a chance
one love will get you high

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming
Sham Hinchey: Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Fabiola Torresi: Back Vocals
Susanna Stivali: Back Vocals
Sara Berni: Back Vocals
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Spoke to a girl just like me we didn’t get on too well
scent of wine waves like mine couldn’t really tell
then she cuts me off a slice of pride as I prepare to start.
Take me to a place of glory found a spot to lie
rack those brain seal them closed whatever makes her cry
and then she offers up her integrity and now believes that she’s gonna fly high
So alone a razor thought and it turned her around
left alone erase a thought as it turned her around
found a place to go, space to grow, sowed the seed harvest the ground
the winds turned cold now she’s snowbound.
Gliding through the market where sounds have a scent
the sun’s so low those eyes are wet
Trying to find smiling faces in stone, watch amazed how the grass grow
but everytime she looks back,
the room seems bear the homecoming is heard so clearly
So alone…
Skies unfold, trying to find smiling faces in stone
but everytime she looks back the room seems bear
and everytime she looks back it seems quite clear
So alone…

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
—–
Nana nana na nana, Nana nana na nana
Flame burns before the cold, do you know the way to make it last forever?
Pain doesn’t stop to hurt, do you really need to make it last forever?
Days run fast. Do you think their shadows should be lasting forever?
Before your time has gone, you need to know.
Nana nana na nana, Nana nana na nana
Your life is mind and blood, waste his time who tries to make it last forever.
Beyond the distant trees, go and seize the days before they leave you forever.
Here and now is the rule to let this moment living forever.
Before your time has gone, you really need to now.
Somewhere a breeze is drifting over a golden road.
Look straight on your way to go, keep your eyes wide, don’t change your course.
Never look back, never look back to the harbor where you came from, no…
Nana nana na nana, Nana nana na nana
Somewhere a breeze is drifting over a golden road.
Look straight on your way to go, keep your eyes wide, don’t change your course.
Never look back, never look back to the harbor where you came from, no…
Nana nana na nana, Nana nana na nana

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
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I’ve got no prize, I’ve got no crown to show you what I am, but…
I’ve got empty heart and empty bed in the crowded space out there
What’s gone is gone and I don’t give a damn just living day by day
If a dream should catch my heart again, I’ll be there
Try to find the way you are, walking down the streets
Recognize the faces and smile, blessing all your dreams
And when you look back on your path there’s nothing to disown
Don’t let ’em stop your walk, pack your stuff and go
Get out of their screaming world
Put smile on their fucking words
Dark blind eyes, bleary minds,
still surprise they ain’t so much to feel?
Like a swarm of kinetic souls,
they won’t get, they won’t get me
Not this time
This time, this time…

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Stick, Keyboards, Piano, Rhythmic programming, Dobro, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
—–
Flown away, through the clouds
tears and smile, old lullabies, from my past
I can see them all, dazed by my imagination
I play with their ghosts and lay down, among my, regrets.
Digging down beneath the growing mud
bones of my soul, it’s all I have from a past that won’t return
my river has no mouth.
Flown away, through the clouds
tears and smiles, your sweetest eyes, by my side
some lonely footsteps…
on my private sunset.
Why…. the night is gettin’ longer can you see me from your side?
(can you hear me when I cry?)
Why…. the dark keeps on surrounding me
I cannot move, I cannot fly
is this the only way to keep you tight?

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
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Stepping out, dressed up to shock, you’ll move in around
Leather trick, I can’t tell your own, it grows up your score
I gotta tell you hun, your lips move but i can’t hear what you’re saying
Something in my head keeps on crying me out to run away
Don’t try to use you bottom, babe, take it away from me
Your smile could make my sorrow, babe, take it away from me
I gotta tell you hun, you look like a beach to an hopeless cast away eyes
Till he’ll find out how this island will so soon turn into hell
Don’t try to use you bottom, babe, take it away from me
Your smile could make my sorrow, babe, take it away from me
Don’t try to use you bottom…
Don’t try to use you bottom, babe, take it away from me
Your smile could make my sorrow, babe, take it away from me
Don’t try to use you bottom, babe, take it away from me
Your smile would be my sorrow, babe, take it away from me
…take it away from me
…babe, take it away from me
…babe, take it away from me

MDA: Guitars, Stick, Piano, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
—–
What do you feel now…?
What do you need now…?
Now that your dreams die under the sun
What do you feel now…?
What do you miss now…?
Now that your sun fades into the night
now that your life fades into the night
Do you smile now…? Do you cry now…?
Echoes of past days are leaving your time
Do you beg now…? Do you pray now…?
Dead grows up faster into your life

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Stick, Keyboards, Piano, Rhythmic programming, Back Vocals, Lyrics
Marcello Catalano: Vocals
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
Désirée Petrocchi: Back Vocals
Simona Rizzi: Back Vocals
—–
Don’t be afraid to fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Throw away your pain and fly high, don’t worry man, this is your way.
Here we go, it’s the next leg on this lonely road.
Crazy thing, life goes on, so you find yourself still moving on
Don’t be afraid to fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Throw away your pain and fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Don’t be afraid to fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Running in the rain and fly high, don’t worry man, this is your way
Years ago…, I was drawing big waves to ride on.
Ripples on a flat sea…, after all is what I learned to see.
Passing through the night, deaf and blind, the light is over.
Passing through my life, I’ve seen the Love spread out and die.
But holds on, over me…
Don’t be afraid to fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Throw away your pain and fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world
Don’t be afraid to fly high, don’t worry man, this is your world.
Running in the rain and fly high, don’t worry man, this is your way
Don’t be afraid to fly high…

MDA: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Rhythmic programming
Marcello Catalano: Vocals, Lyrics
Cristiano Micalizzi: Drums
—–
This face has no name. Red shadows through the rain
Born upon the prairie where the wind blew free
And nothing broke the light of sun from God and me
Now, hopes are dust, memories burning fast
Walking through these empty years
Forefathers cry our trail of tears
And the sky is broken now
Don’t know when and how
I live in the wind. I am small and weak
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes behold
The Spirit so that I may understand the world
Oh Great Mystery, I don’t know what I’m seeing
Walking through these empty years
Forefathers cry our trail of tears
and the sky is broken now
Don’t know when and how
And make my eyes respect
The trees, the wind, the last sunset
And if my heart and mind is one
It’s not been vain our trail of tears