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SANTORINI
Santorini
Santorini
Santorini –
we had such high hopes for you
They once called
you Atlantis a long long time ago
We sailed
into your darkness and came up against you -
You’re a jagged unforgiving land and you have lost your soul
You play with us like laughing clowns in a twisted carnival
Set ‘em up
to knock them down
Get ready –
easy pickings
Get ready -
there are tourists in town
Get ‘em
drunk – they’re gone tomorrow
They’re
richer than their blue jeans show
They’re
captives on this island
They’ll pay
the price only locals know
La Bamba, Club Atlantis
You can dance down at the Lido,
Boppin’ young flesh down at the Rio
Nirvana in Acapulco
Meet Neptune at the Roxy
Get stoned – Marrakesh disco
Cocktails a la Adonis
ACDC rules Atlantis OK
Let ‘em stew
‘cos we don’t savvy
Their foreign
ways and their weird lingo
There’s no
need to scrape and smile
For like the
wind they come and go
There’ll be
more on the next boat
We don’t
want them here anyhow
So let’s send
them all a-packin’
Let’s have a
real good row
And rip em’
off.
You’ve come to Greece , well here’s Led Zeppelin
A stairway to heaven
Ouzo, Metaxa, and retsina
Dionysus lets the good times roll
Apollo rocks with Aphrodite
Woodstock is at the Mars Bar
Get your rocks off at Paradiso
Copacabana
Santorini –
we had such high hopes for you
They once called
you Atlantis a long long time ago
We sailed
into your darkness and came up against you
Santorini
Santorini
You’ve lost
it.
(Michael Coghlan 1992)
COMMENTARY:
a possible site of the mythical Atlantis legend, so much of Santorini truly was a big
disappointment. Nightclubs and bars with stereotypical names to appeal to
mindless young travellers – Lido, Paradiso, the Roxy, etc. But move out of the larger
(spectacular!) towns and you can find the
peace and beauty typical of most Greek islands. It was a complicated song –
lots of changes of pace – and I’ve almost completely forgotten how it went. Probably
won’t try and resurrect it. It belongs to another life.
