Phil Collins
Phil Collins - Lorenzo songtekst
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Lorenzo Odone (1978 - 2008) leed aan adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Een ziekte die bij hem werd ontdekt in 1984. Hij woonde bij zijn ouders in Virginia.
Zijn ouders zijn bekend geworden doordat zij hun zoon behandelde met een mix van olijf- en koolzaadolie. Die olie kreeg de naam 'Lorenzo's oil'.
Lorenzo's moeder, Michaela Odone, schreef een gedicht over Lorenzo en Phil Collins maakte de muziek erbij.
In 1992 is een film over hem gemaakt met de titel 'Lorenzo's oil'. Nick Nolte speelt hierin Lorenzo's vader en Susan Sarandon speelt Lorenzo's moeder.
Once upon a time I made a lion roar He was sleeping in the sunbeams on the old zoo floor I had gone to see the park where my papa used to play And it's called called 'Villa Borghese' and it's on the way Oh, to East Africa Down on Grand Comoro Island where I grew past four Well, I could swim and fish and snorkel on the ocean floor And the wind laughed and the wind laughed through the trees as if to say Well, here's a child who'll want the world to go his way Oh, in East Africa, oh, in East Africa Suddenly for me the world turned upside down Far from my friends, the lions and the dolphins, came this awful sound Dark shadows, sounds of thunder raging over me Came this monster called 'A-dre-no-leu-ko-dys-tro-phy Oh, where's my East Africa? Well they said, they said, they said - the ones who know it all They said from now on for you there will be no more standing tall So I took my parents' hands, I lifted my head to say Well, I'll just have to be a hero, there's no other way, no other way Oh, back to East Africa Oh, back to East Africa Oh, back to East Africa Back to East Africa Come with me I'm going back Going back to East Africa...