My Wooden Friends 

(De Luca, Guzzo, Basile, Longhitano) 

 

Hands off Cain 

(De Luca, Ferrarese, Longhitano, Guzzo) 

 

My Wooden Friends 

 

Here I am staring at my wooden friends 

Forced to be together 'til my very end 

Right at the beginning all I felt was hate 

Wouldn't submit to them being my everyday mates 

 

Brought back to life in a bloody ward bed 

Slowly emerging from a sea of pain and dread 

All I could remember 's stepping on that fence 

Was when darkness enfolded me in its cold romance 

 

CHORUS 

Oh God what did I do 

In my life to deserve all this? 

Did I ever ask you to keep me bound 

to my wooden friends? 

There's no more life to share 

There's nothing left here but despair 

Did I ever ask you to keep me bound  

to my wooden friends?  

 

Soon had to realize that nothing I could do 

If I was to live on this Earth without you 

Nothing would I grasp, I couldn't even stand 

Thirteen year old boy missing both legs and hands  

 

CHORUS 

Oh God what did I do 

In my life to deserve all this? 

Did I ever ask you to keep me bound 

to my wooden friends? 

A landmine in that wood 

Combined you to me just for good 

No other choice but to be bound  

to my wooden friends?  

 

That was to be my last run on the hill when suddenly 

That switch sprang out its long sleeping crop 

of death to yield 

Old rusty chips ruthlessly cleft young bones revealed  

 

Why, my eyes were left unhurt to see 

Condemned to the eternal sight of four prothesis  

 

CHORUS 

Oh God what did I do 

In my life to deserve all this? 

Did I ever ask you to keep me bound 

to my wooden friends? 

As I think 'bout my past 

More lethal pots are lurked to burst 

More logs are waiting to be shaped 

as new wooden friends 

Hands off Cain 

 

Monday morning 

Midwestern jail 

A dead man's led to sit on his last chair  

 

A pleasure thrill 

Salutes his end 

A killer's killed by would-be blameless men  

 

Wednesday eve 

Arabian frame 

"Behead the rape-not-complying slayer maid  

 

BRIDGE 

Not once were they given 

A real chance 

To get themselves what 

You can call defense  

 

Both immulated while 

Avengers increase 

"They only need to die 

in the name of social peace"  

 

CHORUS 

This is why I say  

Get your hands off Cain 

Do you really think you're safe 

Get your hands off Cain  

 

Friday dawn 

Live public show 

Nigeria's going to watch nine hanging heads  

 

Opinion crime 

Must get no relief 

Dissidents pay their government's mischiefs  

 

It's Saturday 

Beyond the Chinese wall 

Some students wait to reach the gallows pole  

 

CHORUS  

 

Don't call it self defense to kill 

In cold blood a helpless man 

Don't matter that's the justice will 

Any doubt he's not innocent? 

 

How many people are still to die 

If the system calls for guilty blood? 

So stop selling lies 

We can all drown in this flood  

 

And will these murderers ever learn not to kill 

Once they are dead 

Will your children learn not to kill 

When their country is a murderer itself 

 

Gas, shooting, injections 

So many different ways 

To see more running blood 

If they were condemned for what we decreed wrong 

How can you be proud 

When the same crime is committed by the law?  

 

BRIDGE 

 

CHORUS