Album:
La Sagrada Familia (2004)
Oryginalne teksty (piosenek)
grecki
Przekład
angielski
Αθήνα
Athens
Athens, a city where everybody have a good time,
hideout for rich men, poor and black money,[*01]
here you’ll find retsina [*02] and hot dog from the canteen,
luxurious restaurants, sushi, mousse but also hunger,
Athens, a city where everybody have a good time,
they worship the showing off, frappe [*03] and clarinets,
here you’ll find smart [people] with leather shoes
and artists with flashy costumes in the dressing rooms…
Night in the Athens it’s always nice,
thousands of lights, chicks who go out together,
in the clubs, people celebrate until nine o’ clock [in the morning ]
and when the sun comes out they take a day off from the flag [*04],
excellent mood and a last walk,
couples embraced in Likavittos with view…
In a city that they choke it [the city] every day a little bit more,
the yuppies, the would-be’s, and the bad drivers…
In the opium den of this city where I’ve learned to live,
to swallow [*05] everything that chokes me and to say thank you…
I look to find more words, but I can’t find them
so I’ve learned to add water in my wine… [*06]
Athens, 2004, Cephissus [*07], at three o’clock in the noon…
Half an hour [waiting] at the traffic lights and another one at the river [Cephissus],
they days are spent and life is wasted,
it’s not enough for me, it’s not enough, it’s not enough,
so I lurch as the bullet in the gun…
Athens is a delusion, it’s trap, it’s smoke,
Russians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Pontians [*08], Rumanians,
”vaselines”, “Turkish women”, “anchovies” down at the port, [*09]
rock ‘n roll fans, well-dressed [people] and veterans of hip hop…
In the opium den of this city where I’ve learned to live,
to swallow everything that chokes me and to say thank you…
I look to find more words, but I can’t find them
so I’ve learned to add water in my wine…
Welcome foreigner, here is paradise,
as woman’s soul is an abyss,
it’s an abyss here as well, what kind of life am I living?
I run from the morning [till the night] like Veggos [*10] and I’m not in time…
I roast, I boil in my juice all day long, [*11]
my worst day is always Monday,
I always dream [imagine] I won the lottery
and a little bit before I take the money, damn it, I wake up…
Damn there is traffic, damn, there is manifestation,
damn, Maria didn’t call me,
f**k the buses and the circulation,
f**k the traffic lights and the cd piracy…
Open the door to go away, I don’t stand it,
cause I’m close to madness,
now I want to leave as long as it’s still early,
the last ten years I can do what you cannot do…
In the opium den of this city where I’ve learned to live,
to swallow everything that chokes me and to say thank you…
I look to find more words, but I can’t find them
so I’ve learned to add water in my wine…
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