99% - Nayn-Un-Nayntsik-the Painted Bird/Daniel Kahn

[00:05.369]They’re driving us out of town [00:07.385]‘Cause luxury makes the world go round [00:10.628]Read it in papers every morning [00:13.875]“How could all this trouble come to pass? [00:17.379]Years and years we listened to the warning [00:20.869]That luxury is just a golden calf.“ [00:24.124]And you say the rich are parasites [00:26.385]You say they are a curse [00:28.636]But as soon as you get yourself a little money [00:31.887]In your purse, you’re worse [00:35.882]Me traybt undz aroys fun shtot [00:37.882]Vayl ashires iz der nayer got [00:40.876]Shraybn tsaytungen arum di temes: [00:44.379]“vi zhe ken dos haynttsutog nokh zayn? [00:47.632]Doyres lang farshteyen mir dem emes [00:50.869]Az ashires iz a falsher vayn!“ [00:54.123]Un me ruft dem oysher a paskudnyak [00:56.626]Un me halt im far a brokh [00:58.624]Nor vi bald me fardint a bisl mezumen [01:01.122]Makht men dem oysher nokh. Oy nokh: [01:05.637]“Oy, vi sheyn iz mayn mashindele! [01:09.877]Zet vi es halt in kepele di gantse velt!“ [01:14.128]Oy my little phone-y thing is beautiful [01:18.633]See how fast it captures simply everything! [01:23.136]Nayn-un-nayntsik, nayn-un-nayntsik, 99% are we [01:28.376]99% don’t measure up these days [01:31.391]To one who lives in luxury [01:34.871]Nayn-un-nayntsik in der vog fun oylem-haze [01:38.137]Kumt nit tsu tsu eyn gevir [01:41.876]Nayn-un-nayntsik zenen mir [01:44.622]Nayn-un-nayntsik, nayn-un-nayntsik [01:48.627]Nayn-un-nayntsik zenen mir [01:52.885]Nayn-un-nayntsik, nayn-un-nayntsik [01:57.130]Nayn-un-nayntsik zenen mir [02:01.618]You wanna join the one percent? [02:03.377]Just gather ninety-nine good friends: [02:06.378]Take from them the best they have to offer [02:09.636]Let them eat the leavings of your meal [02:12.871]Soon you will be filling up your coffers [02:16.134]Scraping heaven with your glass and steel [02:19.130]And if they say that you’re a dirty bum [02:21.383]Who takes without restraint [02:23.390]Just make a little donation [02:25.135]And they’ll say that you’re a saint, a saint! [02:30.138]Vilst vern an oysher haynt? [02:32.375]Iz zaml nayn-un-nayntsik fraynd [02:35.140]Nem tsu bay zey dos shenste un dos beste [02:38.386]Zoln zey lebn a bisl eng un shmol [02:41.632]Du’st zikh boyen fundamentn feste [02:44.885]Kratsn volkns mit dayn gloz-un-shtol [02:48.133]Az me’t dikh rufn a pust-un-paskudnyak [02:50.374]A megushemdiker shtik [02:52.137]Zolst shenken a sheyne nedove [02:54.131]Vestu vern an antik, antik! [02:58.626]“Oy, vi klug iz undzer oysherl [03:02.876]Zet vi er veyst vi ostsuheyln di gantse velt!“ [03:07.378]“Oh how smart is our philanthropist [03:11.387]How he heals the whole wide world with charity!“ [03:15.881]Nayn-un-nayntsik, nayn-un-nayntsik, 99% are we [03:19.632]One percent’s a lonely number [03:23.121]Lonely with his riches and his luxury [03:27.382]Eyn-un-eyntsik iz der oysher [03:29.369]Eyn-un-eyntsik mit zayn ashires on a shir [03:33.873]Nayn-un-nayntsik zenen mir [03:53.134]But if the wheel should turn [03:55.128]And the stock market should crash and burn [03:58.131]Bloody murder scream the ruling classes [04:01.132]“It’s not our fault, we put the money down,“ [04:04.372]While the rest of us are thrown out on our asses, Looking for apartments out of town [04:10.586]So be a pal and not a pig [04:12.822]You’ll have yourself to thank [04:15.073]Don’t make your home a slot machine [04:17.081]Don’t turn your town into a bank [04:22.532]Tomer git zikh dos redl a drey [04:24.776]Un di berzhe falt biz okh un vey [04:28.027]Shrayt der eyn-protsentnik khay vekayem [04:31.285]“Loz di tsore nit tsum kern tsu!“ [04:34.784]Beys mir vos esn gvirishe shirayem [04:38.037]Zukhn naye dires— ober vu?! [04:40.277]Oyb a khaver un nit keyn khazer zayn [04:43.538]Iz dos lebn a geshank [04:45.536]Me makht nit fun a voynung a konte [04:47.536]Me makht nit fun a shtot— a bank! [04:52.035]Nayn-un-nayntsik iz a khavershaft [04:56.233]Eyn-un-eyntsik iz a khazershaft [05:00.486]Ninety-nine is a community [05:04.244]One percent is a ****-you-nity [05:08.481]Nayn-un-nayntsik, 99% are we [05:11.990]99%, we are the 99%, we sing our melody [05:18.986]Nayn-un-nayntsik, nayn-un-nayntsik [05:20.982]Lomir, 99 zingen undzer shir [05:25.239]Nayn-un-nayntsik zenen mir