A keresés eredménye

In this neighbourhood

I look outside and sigh
Life is a bitter wine and I give it a try
People that prepare hookahs, prostitutes and bums
Steamers, sailors, papatzides1, fortune tellers2
But, in this neighbourhood, where the children are running around
The patrol cars shine at nights
 
Gods and demons are chasing me mother
They look for me in fortune tellers and in oracles
But the neighbourhood doesn't tell them about my plans
And the police are enraged
I have a heavy load on my chest
To taste all the drinks of sin
I want to throw down my luck like a dice
All the rebetes3 of the world to write history
 
My palm is writing the history of the neighbourhood
The best people were covered with tombs4
I've got every building in my mind
I have been carving the walls of the detention centre since I was 15
In which square's benches did we meet up?
Where we fell in love, where we first kissed?
Our neighbourhoods are next to each other, but we got lost
It was your turn to count and we all hid5
 
Five, ten, fifteen and I come out6
I started counting as a kid and I opened my eyes when I was a full grown man
Since I was in a hurry, I could't wait
I fell in love with night as much as the bead's sound
(Let's go) Throw weed in the hookah
(Let's go) Tune up the baglamades
(Opa) As for her sake tonight
There'll be troubles in the neighbourhood tonight
 
(Heeey) Tell me no more about her
I forgot about her as soon as I finished my drink
I saw in her eyes what was left
I didn't think about what I did and I lost her
The blinds are closed all day long
I saw life break up the toughest boys
We're the ones that the new age hasn't changed
Out of our cages, children, wild beasts
 
I look outside and sigh
Life is a bitter wine and I give it a try
People that prepare hookahs, prostitutes and bums
Steamers, sailors, papatzides, fortune tellers
But, in this neighbourhood, where the children are running around
The patrol cars shine at nights
 

• 1. People that run the game 'Papas', where you have to find the King in between 3 cards, usually rigged, that's why the word is associated with 'Liar'
• 2. Χαρτορίχτρες, women that 'predict the future' by reading it in the deck
• 3. Singers of rebetiko
• 4. Died
• 5. Hide and seek reference
• 6. What the one that's searching is saying to give time to the ones hiding to find a spot