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Betagarri
(Vitoria-Gasteiz - Spain)
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Ska from the heart of Basc country a funky flavout with brass section, Reggae and Punk Rock.
500 concerts all over the world.
The line up of Betagarri
Iker Uriarte - drums
Pablo Rodríguez - bass
Aitor Ruiz de Arbulo - Guitar
Aitor Aguirre - guitar
Unai Lobo - trumpet
David Gaviña - sax
Mikel Sanz - trombone
Iñaki Ortiz de Villalba - voice
Text of " Basque Fire", new CD of Betagarri
1. NORA JOAN ZIREN?
Where did they go?
A night, a thousand hours
A fear in the moon those
Who never arrived are
Those who never went those
Who never went a thousand stars,
Two eyes, the worst side of darkness is it calls
Without knocking
What we really are
We really are a life,
A thousand years happiness
Or without you it is hard for me
To close my eyes
And see nothing at all
See nothing at all there
Were a thousand,
One please which
And how i don't mind
Which or where which
Or where they can go to heaven
To your heaven
Where did they go,
Where did they go if we ever had them at all?
Where did our dreams go?
Where did they go,
Where did they go if they were ever ours to have?
Where did they go, our dreams?
A thousand lights, two shadows
Tell me it is a lie
That it has all been a bad dream
And we are still asleep
Still asleep
You and i said a thousand times
The night being our witness
That dreams were possible
Were possible.
2.HEMEN ERDIAN
Here in the middle
You know fine well where
the roads go to
And from and it's fine by me
That you make your choice
But be clear the straight road is the only one
And i'll tell you here what road
And what is straight ooh!
You are stuck at the crossroads ooh!
And you cannot stop
here in the middle
It's just fine we'll try once again
Think calmly take all the time
You need look at the road the rest have taken
And think what is best for everybody ooh!
You are stuck at the crossroads ooh!
And you cannot stop
here in the middle
We are sorry time is up,
Your chances for choosing
are over
And you haven't chosen the road I offered
You are against so you are not with me ooh!
You are stuck at the crossroads ooh!
And you cannot stop here in the middle
3. BOOM EGIN ETA KRASH!!!
To boom and crash!!!
Tic tac my heart, the head is bubbling.
Opening hope's door.
Thousands of thoughts in an instant,
go you all away from here, please.
I am going to explode,
I know who I am,
always obeying and fulfilling orders.
Yesterday I was a project of the society
and today I am dreaming the future.
The clock takes me, last trip!
Warm darkness, light blocks up!
The clock takes me, last trip!
Clear darkness, all blind persons!
To boom and crash!
To boom and crash! Fuck off!!
Less and less in order
that the moment comes,
always prepare
to be a protagonist.
When the moment comes,
everything was ended,
I close the eyes
to turn them to opening.
Black, red, blue, green?
Which will be?
The doubt of cutting,
the honor is yours.
If you have the response
here have you the opportunity
Which? Which? Which? Which color?
4. ARREN ERRO ZAHARRA
Male’s old root
There are lots of interesting things
in the Basque Country,
Fortunately, that’s our nation.
As anywhere, you can also find misery
but above all, there are amazing things.
Our ancestors left their lovely language to us,
isn’t Basque so lovely?
But they are even more special, and lovely,
the girls you can only find in the Basque Country!
Being humans, existing is the difficulty.
Here it’s! We’re proud!
Our burnt males’ old root!
Woman, me, you, baby,
give your modest silence!
Always full, always two, always with power!
The victory in that dignitiy’s war
will never be the longest way straight ahead.
There’s no peace that wants to fight,
Let’s do what each one of us must do.
5. LANA (EGUNEZ JOAN ETA GAUEZ ETORRI)
work (going in the morning and coming back at night).
Going in the morning and coming back at night,
You almost have no time to live.
You spend your live
Putting up with your boss’ violence.
You have to keep your family going,
To live in this society,
It’s a nuisance living for that,
Your life is going from the factory to home and from home to the factory.
Work, working is
The strongest punishment.
Work, working.
We have to be slaves
Work, working.
If you don’t want to be a slave of your work,
Stand up against the system,
Let young students and women build a society
That is based on equality.
Long live Lenin and Marxism!
Long live worker’s union!
Our goal is to get rid of capitalism
That’s our desire, our biggest dream.
If someday, somewhere,
we had something of our own
Isn’t it our right to get what is ours?
Let’s stand up then, in a fight
Women /men are better than males / females.
6. EL PERIODIQUERITO
The Newspaper Seller
Once upon a time there was a Periodiquerito. He was so poor that he only could sell old newspapers as he hadn’t enough money to buy the new ones. People didn’t buy his newspapers because they were old and they wanted the new papers. The Periodiquerito didn’t sell anything and he had been storing more and more old newspapers. That’s when the periodiquerito opened a paper recycling factory and he became rich. He bought all the news agencies, he forbade publishing actual news and he forced people to read news from the past. You can read in today’s newspapers that the Zapatistas are arriving to Mexico city and they’ll meet the Villistas there. The date can’t be read correctly, but it seems to be 1914 or 1997. ¡Tam-tam!
Sub Comandante Insurgente "Marcos" (Insurgent Sub Commander Marcos)
7. XX-MENDEKO IZURRITEA
The plague of the 20th century
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Today, here,
there and all around the world
Is killing people
And we can’t manage
to cope with it.
Aids!! We’re scared of freedom
Aids!! Waiting to fall down
into the precipice
Aids!!
The enemy who lives next to us
Aids!!
The plague of the 20th century!
We’ll loose many friends
On the way,
We don’t know why,
Porquoi, they caught it.
If you aren’t homosexual or you don’t take heroin don’t think
You can catch it someday, because you are your own.
But if you’re young,
Don’t think of limiting sex,
Use prevention to avoid it,
Let’s have sex with others,
Let’s forget our prejudices.
8. GORA BEHERAK
Ups and downs
If on opening your eyes
Darkness predominates
Listen to your own heartbeats
As they carry on there
When night is darkest
Dawn is arriving
Closed eyes see
The brightness of the inside
Often things are the opposite
Of what we would like them to be
It seems hard but it is not easy
To carry on
Carry on to carry on oohh!
With life
Resist resist oohh!
Take the risk!
There are ups and downs
Carrying on is in your hands
There are ups and downs
Don't get lost on the road
You're not alone on the road
9. NORK ESANGO DIT NOLA?
Who will tell me how?
Today we're here
Looking at each other as usual
Today we're here
Wanting to say everything
to each other
But saying nothing
Today we're transforming
Thoughts to dreams
Today going crazy
Because of lack of courage
When will I know?
Who will tell me how
To come to you and say to you,
I love you?
When will I know?
Who will tell me how?
Is there something between us?
Today we are
Asking each other
What we are doing
As if there were time to spare
Tell me now
That you want to be mine
And I will be yours
Forever and ever.
10. ETORKIZUN LATZA
Fucked-up future
The dawn has gone out now
Darkness rules
In memories my town,
My mind, my people
A clear patch tries to break through
Another day is here again
I see the trail on the wall and
Watching myself in the mirror
Fucked-up future
While the storm passes
Living for now
Never covered up always naked
There was news of you yesterday
On reading the writing
I wet the paper
With bitter tears
I am looking at the sky
It looks like it wants to break
Waiting for new beams
Feeling the pulse of the people
It's difficult for me to remember
Iwould like to have you in my arms
It hurts me when I recall
The silence of your tears
Tell me it's not true
The wall of this nightmare
Ask the new sun
Where our life is left
11. GAZTERI GORRIA
Red youth
Red youth, new young people
Our day, our future is here
Hurrah for ours
And up our youth
Today's fight tomorrow's victory
As red as the dawn
And with a whole life ahead of us
Just as our land needs water
Our people need us
And if the sky is dark
We'll fill it with new stars
Discography
Basque Fire (2005) JARO 4272-2 / Betagarri
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CDs:
Basque Fire - 2005
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