In ’69 as I wandered around here and there
I would hit the road early in the morning
I saw a friend wasted from raki (brandy)
‘I’m giving up’ he told me ‘and ‘I’m starting from the beginning.’
On a bench in the corner of the museum
he told me "i'm going crazy, I can’t take it anymore
work and home, home and work
I will leave everything and go away one night.
My boss tells me off, my mom groans
I never get a ‘good morning’ in the neighborhood
they’re always telling me that I’m a hooligan
that’s why I tell you, Paul, I’m leaving for the better."
One day I returned home in the morning,
I found a letter thrown on the porch
one second can bring everything a lifetime didn’t
it says they put Lefteri in jail
he seduced, they said, a 16 year old girl
he seduced, they said…