Look, high in the sky

The vultures are back

And at full speed they ride the heavens



God, they're losing their minds

Why do they attack?

The unspeakable shadows came as a surprise



They came by the hundred

They arrived without warning

The bringers of storm, predators of warfare



There soon will be bloodshed

The streets will be blood red

The Luftwaffe is ready to strike with full power



'i can still remember the warning siren...

There was much light, yet we stood in utter darkness'



Look, it started to rain

Big bombs like droplets

But this puddle won't be precisely of water



Debris all around

Ashes and dust

A domino city just waiting to fall



Fall like Rome or Constantinople

Fall like the Tower or outrageous Sodom



Mother of Sorrow

Come ease their pain

For your children will see no tomorrow



[Pre-chorus:]

Death from beyond

Death from above



[Chorus:]

Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames

Rotterdam, hell's breath on Earth

Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames

Rotterdam, nothing will be the same.



In the middle of May, 1940

When no one saw it coming

Carpet bombing shattered Rotterdam

An unfair game won by stalemate



The Stukas wiped out almost every trace

Of a great city so rich in history

Of the many souls that died there

Of the heart that lost it's essence



"Een Stad zonder hart..."



[Repeat pre-chorus]



[Chorus 2:]

Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames

Rotterdam, hell's breath on Earth

Rotterdam, Rotterdam in flames

Rotterdam, gone all the same



[Repeat chorus] 1



Again.