What are you listening to at the moment?

The Loser Takes All, by Yiannis Aggelakas -- a strange fusion of Greek rembetiko with (French-sounding) rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhZ0FnuFQDw

Dedicated to all who have gambled on something important and lost.

A rough translation, just in case someone cares about the lyrics:

THE LOSER TAKES ALL

You were partying in the heavens
With dice and a deck of cards
Suddenly in the darkness
You fell with force

Now you are cold and hungry
But let it to us
For you boils this
Empty pan

Don't you mind
That all happenned so fast
And if you didn't say
A few words

You knew in the end the winner is
He who smiles before the guillotine

You laid the green felt in clouds and at once
A hundred years you won betting for an hour

Now you huff and puff and ask
Where's the bottom of this wild precipice

Don't you mind
That all was in a hurry
And if you didn't say
A few words

You knew in the end the winner is
He who smiles before the guillotine

Doesn't matter if the dice turned cold
Your bet was for a dream, you are ready for anything
It's been said in a song we were told in the past
The loser takes all

The loser takes all


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