Vendetta is a 1999 HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. Eighteen Italian-Americans were falsely accused of the murder of the police chief. After their acquittal, eleven of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings in American history.
The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032).
Life is like a vehement vortex, evil hands draw me into it.
Down into the depths of confusion. Need a gulp (cause) there's
a storm in my head.
Now I'm the man. I'm a winner, the holy bottle gives me strength to live.
(I) ride with wind of satisfaction. Ecstasy - only one way to get it.
I'm cryin' help me screamin', pure shock, my blood is steamin'.
My damned brain's going insane.
Wet friend I need your touch now, need your protection somehow.
Take me, take my mind to be.
Now, you're in my thoughts and nightmares, my helpless mind is possessed
by you, 'cause you're the only sense of my living, you took my soul, you're
the storm in my head.
My hand, my body's tremblin'. You are my God of living.
of sadness, of dying.
Our love - and hate-relation, a road with one more station
of mania, of dying.
BRAIN DAMAGE - BRAIN DAMAGE
I perish - no more feeling, last alcoholic creedence
alone with my nightmare.
No hope and no escapin', it's just my life you're takin'