In the community of Vangelis fans it is well known that this song deals with Seveso disaster of 1976, a catastrophic industrial event on chemical plant in Italy, which resulted in numerous hospitalizations but luckily no human deaths, though a huge number of wild and domestic animals either died or was killed later to stop the chemicals from getting into the food chain.
It should be known that current version of lyrics is incomplete. It only features spoken Italian parts, completely omitting the sung lyrics in the middle section of song, performed by Jon Anderson (of Yes and ABWH).
In the community of Vangelis fans it is well known that this song deals with Seveso disaster of 1976, a catastrophic industrial event on chemical plant in Italy, which resulted in numerous hospitalizations but luckily no human deaths, though a huge number of wild and domestic animals either died or was killed later to stop the chemicals from getting into the food chain.
It should be known that current version of lyrics is incomplete. It only features spoken Italian parts, completely omitting the sung lyrics in the middle section of song, performed by Jon Anderson (of Yes and ABWH).