NOT FRAYERIM (SUCKERS)

How much longer? In our dreams we’ll sail like a

Mig, look out from above on all the stink from a

safe distance, which is 5 minutes from Kfar Saba

How much longer? Close our eyes to what’s happening

under our noses and pretend that everything’s Sababa

We’ll bring a beer from the fridge and zap to a different

channel

How much longer? Think about tokes and drinks and shags for ever, so

what that my next door neighbour’s Danny is an

orphan?

I was at the funeral and went over for the shiva but it’s too much for me

to break the cycle of suffering.

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

We are definitely definitely definitely not

We’re definitely not frayerim

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

We are definitely definitely definitely not

We’re definitely not frayerim

My mates say enough enough of being so heavy

And I don’t disagree but the situation’s absurd – try to get

some of these examples and if you don’t manage then wait for

me

Cos if here a missile fell, there there’s another

bomb-shell

What does it matter who’ll take over from Jordan,

Katash, or Shakil

And if here it’s a combat zone, there a minefield

What does it matter if I pay by cheque, credit, or cash

And if water is 700 and rates are 2000

Of course I’ll take part in the latest discount

deal…

Left – right – look to the sides

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

We are definitely definitely definitely not

We’re definitely not frayerim

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

Anachnu betach betach betach lo

Anachnu betach lo frayerim

And sometimes everything looks just weird, not

connected

Like a nun in a brothel or a whore in a monastery

Everything’s going from bad to worse

Tear emerges from the eye, spills over onto the cheek

and you? – I cry about it all.

Weep at how it all could have been

major here

Could have been

…harmony…

Between synagogue and flack-jacket to the mosque

Shopping mall, church, it all could have been one

Instead there’s this feeling of help!

Living with this sense of ‘as if’

Without looking reality in the face

With no attempt to move forward, only to float

Disconnect

Do everything not to get screwed

Do everything not to get screwed

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws

with us)

We are definitely definitely definitely not

We’re definitely not frayerim

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

Anachnu betach betach betach lo

Anachnu betach lo frayerim

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

We are definitely definitely definitely not

We’re definitely not frayerim

And we’ll do reserve duty, pay our taxes

And we’ll get stuck in traffic (no one screws with us)

Anachnu betach betach betach lo

Anachnu betach lo frayerim