Φάνης [Fánis] [English translation]

I hadn't seen you in two years

And I met you again on a Sunday

Buying (the people) ouzo and liqueur at the coffeehouse

And you were all dressed up as if it's been a feast

You weren't off from army, to wish you a fair life as a citizen

Neither were you celebrating, to wish you happy birthday

Madhouse and prison, two years and six months

I drank the ouzo and said 'so long'

I know, you looked for a job in a thousand places

And everywhere they've been asking for recommendations, experience

But upon taking a look at the yellow paper you had

They'd thrown you out like a dog, without giving you a chance to apologize

And at first you said, fine, and looked for job somewhere else

And elsewhere just the same again, and again

But you'd been way unlucky, cause the times were bad

When people were living on less and less and yourself had a yellow paper

And you know they're allergic to that colour

And each evening came and it went dark, fever would set in then

Torturing you through summer and winter

And it's a huge torture this dirty trick

You've been taught in prison

By that tall guy from Drapetsona

you long for the white powder, you know it's not your fault

fires burning your body,

spoon and needle

And you've been patient because you've been afraid of the cell

Welcoming loneliness and the lime that kept falling

like snowflakes, from the ceiling

And all the way to your last breath you won't forget

A night in prison, in tears and shouts

And the word was out next morning, at cell 15

the old ones raped Fanis the teen

And when they found you frozen in your cell

They said "he's been long dead"

And someone rushed to make a call

I know you've been suffering for five weeks now

I know you missed the white powder

And you've been telling me I won't go back there anymore

I'm sick of the white nights

I want to live, like a human

I hadn't seen you in two years

And I met you again on a Sunday

Buying (the people) ouzo and liqueur at the coffeehouse

And you were all dressed up as if it's been a feast