RIOTの最新アルバム「Immortal Soul」についてのインタビュー記事の中で、Tony が大村孝佳の事について触れています。 Tonyは、大村のアルバム「Emotions in Motion」に収録されているHoly TomorrowとNeverを歌っていますが、今回RIOTのアルバムに収録されているWings Are For Angelsと言う曲の歌詞が、Holy Tomorrowの歌詞の延長にあるというのです。
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What were some of the lyrical focuses on the record? "Wings Are For Angels" seems to be highly topical.
There's a long story to that song, but I'll try to put it in a nutshell. A few years back right after Faith and Fire, maybe around '06 or '07, I did this album with a phenomenal young Japanese guitarist named Takayoshi Ohmura. He’s this amazing shredmeister, and his people contacted me and said that he had a bunch of songs written, but would I write some lyrics and melodies for a couple of the songs? So the album was called Emotions in Motion, and he had a song with a working title called "Holy Tomorrow." I decided to go with that, and I wrote it from the viewpoint of a father in Iraq who had lost his whole family, who had lost his house, everything to the Iraq War. He was fleeing his hometown, running from his own people who had turned against him. He actually sings in that tune some of the same lyrics in the first verse as "Wings Are For Angels." In "Wings Are For Angels," it’s the exact same place in time, except the voice, the character, is an American helicopter pilot. He starts out with the exact same lyrics in the first verse. "Wings Are For Angels" is actually a long bookend to that song I wrote for Takayoshi.