Bohemian...Athenian Rhapsody.....

[supersonic]

Athenian Rhapsody (The Ballad of Papandreou)

Is this our real debt?
Is this just fantasy?
Won in a landslide
Now I’m facing austerity
I opened the books
And said “are you kidding me?”
Did what we did to get into the Eurozone
So there was never a need to grow
Euro’s high, rates stayed low
Anything to enter, didn’t really matter to Greece, to Greece

Papa, just told the truth
No one’s paying any tax
And my colleagues here are hacks
Papa, Greece had everything
But the bankers came and took it all away
Papa, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Goldman told us it would work
and now I sit here like a jerk
They were wrong, they were wrong, that swap illusion’s shattered

Too late, the market crashed
My country’s on the brink
And my bond spreads really stink
Goodbye to the good life – it’s got to go
I never thought our bonds could trade so low
Papa, ooh ooh ooh ooh – (anyway my yields go)
No one wants to buy
And some folks wish they never had bought at all…

We need some euros need some euros very fast
Mykonos, Skiathos, you can sell them to China
DSK and Regling – say our debt is frightening – Hey,
Papandreou, Papandreou,
Papandreou, Papandreou,
Papandreou runs the show – he’s out of dough oh oh oh

He’s a professor from Minnesota
He’s a professor leading his country
Found that the Greeks had been cooking the books

Bail in – bail out – will you bail us out?
ECB. Nein! We will not bail you out
Bail us out
IMF. We will not bail you out
Bail us out PSI. We will not bail you out
Bail us out
Will not bail you out
Bail us out (never)
Never bail you out
Bail us out
Never bail you out – ooh ooh ooh
Nein, nein nein nein nein nein nein!
Oh mama Merkel, mama Merkel, mama Merkel we’ll default
The Bundestag has no package set aside for Greece
For Greece
For Greece

China: So you think you can stiff me and just say goodbye?
So you think I’ll just hold and continue to buy?
You’ll pay us – we’ll want more than Piraeus Ships, airports and banks, as for your unions, no thanks!

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Once we had an empire
That is history How did this transpire? – back to Minnesota for me.

Goodbye to the Euro…

 

[Κωστας Λυμπεροπουλος]

Once we had an empire
That is history How did this transpire? – back to Minnesota for me.

Goodbye to the Euro…

δεν καταλαβαίνω Χριστό: μεγάλωσα με Kinks, Animals, Rolling Stones και VU.
κάτω από τα δάχτυλά μου, είδα να ξυπνούν οι κρυμμένες φωνές μέσα στον Bach και τον Schumann.
"το πήδηξες το έρημο...παίξε ξανά το αριστερό χέρι...".
το έπαιζα. ξανά και ξανά. κάπου στο ενδιάμεσο, έλεγα "Τι είν Αυτό; τι έβαλε εδώ ο αθεόφοβος; αυτό, είναι μία Σύνθεση από μόνο του!". κι Αυτός, το είχε βάλει εκεί για να ...συνοδεύει.
Αντε γειά!
Δεν ξέρω αν θα συνεχίσω να γράφω.
Οτιδήποτε.
Ωρες ώρες, νιώθω πως τα έχω πεί όλα.

Αλλά...Back to Minnesota? Not Good enough for me.
The Mississippi Delta is MY Destination. :ADFADF1:

 

[supersonic]

τι να κάνουμε τώρα....
Μινεσότα ήταν...

 

[Κωστας Λυμπεροπουλος]

τι να κάνουμε τώρα....
Μινεσότα ήταν...

o διάολος να τους πάρει: μας πήδηξε το 1o Σύνταγμα Πεζικού της Μινεζότα στο Gettysburg :icon15:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nPjMMHDcQ

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel
Now that's just what I am
For this fair land of freedom
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fought against it
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union-
'Tis dripping with our blood-
And I hates their striped banner,
I fought it all I could.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Stiffen in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.

I won't be reconstructed
I'm better now than then
and for that carpetbagger
I do not give a damn
so I'm off for the frontier
soon as I can go
I'll prepare a weapon
and start for Mexico

 

[Κωστας Λυμπεροπουλος]

ή, αλλιώς:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZ-bIfeM4E

Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down
Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn

Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon

So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow
I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by
It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try

If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?
They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon

Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do
I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do?
If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine
But they can put a man on the moon
And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by

Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here
Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year
And we can't afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed
So she didn't get no chemo so our lives was destroyed
And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full
And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too

Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round
But I'm still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground
And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit
They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit
And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me
But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with some hungry mouths to feed

I wish I'z still an outlaw, was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife
And if you say I'm being punished. Ain't he got better things to do?
Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon

Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the mo