When the Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy)

Gogol Bordello

As I walked into the bar
A man came up to me and said:
You know the older you will get
The more perverted you will get

Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Optzay, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Be bad transvestattn? (Da yuta nigh!)
Or be a good zoldatten?! (Ozay Optzay!)
Yeah, give it a try, (By by by by)
But me I'm jasto Bordello kind of guy!..

Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily, Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth

Ah ha hey!

When the Trickster starts a-walking
He sends the whole world asque
Just when you think that it's all through
Its just a birth of something new
And when the Trickster starts a-pokin
Who does he need to ask permission
Before he goes in third position
I guess he's justo Bordello kind of guy!...

Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth

Ah ha hey!

So I walked out out of a bar
And drove like crazy for half mile
I was thirteen beers drunk
On Houston I jumped in some trunk...
We ventured on New York Throughway
Where myself I heard I say:
Shall I be classic self crasher?
Or be a good flasher?!

Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Heeeeeeey, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Da yuta nigh!
Ozay Optzay!
By by by by!
I guess I'm justo Bordello kind of guy!

Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!


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    After the "bad priest" bit, and the two ukrainian lines which follow it, the lyrics are:

    "[Ukrainian], do you deny? Or a-be a good Siddhartha (oh try oh try!)"

    He's offering different types of lifestyles (to be like Siddhartha would be to abstain from material wealth and physical pleasures).

    In the end, this is not for him - He's just a bordello kinda guy!

    Dogplatteron October 10, 2007   Link

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