Joe Romersa - Hometown

A sad and beautiful song sung by an American singer Joe Romersa, released in 2003, composed by Akira Yamaoka, (山岡 晃), a Japanese video game composer, sound designer, sound director, and video game producer.

This is a fan-made music video, originally loaded on my old YouYube channel, Teiska123, in December 2009. I've edited video clips from the old classic film.

The video is dedicated to those who never had each other, and also to my hometown.

The lyrics by Joe Romersa:

Hometown

He spoke of tortured souls,
So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in,
to the town that takes all.
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want,
all the time then he shouts at the moon
"She's gone", and fear has overcome.

He was walking the mile,
he was walking alone...

So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in
to the town that takes all.
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want,
all the time then he shouts at the moon.
"She's gone", and fear has overcome.

He was walking the mile,
he was walking alone.

Four and twenty dead birds,
they bleed upon the nest.
There was no time for reasons,
they had no sign of a threat.

Now it's too late,
too late for me
This town will eventually take me
Too late, too late for me
This town will win.

(spoken)
Through this fog they come along
Dark creatures singing a terrible song
The rest of the bar laughed at him
Only I felt my hope grow dim
They found him dead the very next day
"No more stories from him," I heard them say
We blamed bad luck for his fate
Only I felt terror so great.

She and he will know...
that someday...
all things will end...

That misty night,
that dismal room
The dead search for their kill
While angels sleep, in endless dark
The dead seek out sin.