Early one morning I was lying in my bed
The alarm went off I just shook my head
I said damn I’m late …again
I went downstairs and my wife came in
She said you won’t believe what them bastards just did
They took the whole thing down

I started shaking I could hardly believe it
When I heard the man on my TV
Ref ---Say somebody let the devil out
It’s gonna take a long shoe to kick him back down to hell
I took my kids right out of there school
There was smoke in the air and they asked if it was true
That the bad men died
I said yeah honey they can’t hurt you
Or me or your mama or your sister too
And I said a little prayer as I lied
I walked up the street to the grocery store
I heard an old man singing ‘bout the second war
Ref---
I saw a Hindu and a Brother and a Muslim and a Jew
They were holding hands crying there was nothing
They could do . . . ‘Cause nothing could be done
Then it all fell down like a house of cards
All the people were escaping they were running from the shards
Of the glass the that fell down from the sky
But they ran into the trouble to see who could be saved
In the city of New-York in the home of the brave.

Ci son macchine nascoste
E, però, nascoste male
Che le vedi dondolare al ritmo di chi è li dentro per potersi consolare
Godendo sui clacson
Fra i fantasmi di Elvis
Ci son nuvole in certe camere
E meno ombrelli di quel che pensi
Lo sapete cos'ha in testa il mago Walter
Quando il trucco gli riesce e non pensa più a niente
E i ragazzi son in giro
C'è qualcuno solo in sala giochi
E l'odore dei fossi forse lo riconoscono in pochi

E le senti le vene
Piene di ciò che sei
E ti attacchi alla vita che hai

Leggero, nel vestito migliore
Senza andata né ritorno, senza destinazione
Leggero, nel vestito migliore
Sulla testa un po' di sole
Ed in bocca una canzone

Dove passerà la banda
Col suo suono fuori moda
Col suo suono un giorno un po' pesante
Un giorno invece troppo leggero…