After Crying

Now this is going to be a little embarrassing.
On their first CD, After Crying dedicated a song to FZ.
As the members of the band tell it, they sent a copy to Zappa
who replied 'I'm not dead yet,' after which they apologized.
I don't know if this really happened, I thought that to receive a 'Hommage'
you don't have to be dead, do you? (I haven't seen the original edition
of this CD, so they may have even changed the title after the apology.)






European Things
(Hommage à Frank Zappa)

(...God seems so far...)
Europe often tries to forget
About a Barbarian State
Saved it from halfmoons of Allah
And was beginning to date

Evolution brutalized us
Revolution sweats in vain
Again
Rock and roll-plague lies in our brain

Contraceptive ice 'n cigarette
Contraceptive sunshine
Contraceptive dance n' prayers
Help to lose the time

Seven headed Cicciolinas
Spew sulphurous brands
Love ends
Businessmen's oomph ooze from pure hands

Think so the sky is really
Artificial silk
The birds fly certainly
To the ancient paradise
Where sadist cats agonize

The sufferIngmar Bergman
Befould his pants
Cause saw a man was not a pervert
Ars Longa Vita Brevis Est
Of course to err is human

My head weeps on her gold chain
N' hurts
She the Glory is an awful flirt
By her little lies I've so burned
She's the Philosophy

Europe often tries to crush me
Oh, let me fly
Lose the measure of danger in the fight

The madness can't be mad
This enemy star
Moves in piquant red
God seems so far

Dear suicide
I'm the sad cyanide in your drink
Oh, suicide,
Waits for you a lonely ride
In the deep the Dark

Signes your heart
He signes you
By wind

(Europe often tries to forget
'Bout a Barbarian State
Saved it from halfmoons of Allah
And was beginning to date)


The song ended up on a compilation album as well..

Finally, a live version with alternate lyrics.

Notes
1. Saved it from halfmoons...
Hungary in fact stopped the expansion of the Turkish Empire.
While Western Europe prospered, Hungary was torn into 3 parts,
most of its territory occupied by the Turks for 150 years, between 1526 and 1686.
Hungarian nationalists used to say (they still do) that the West
never even thanked Hungary for this. (Which is true.)
Why is it mentioned in this song? Because it looks like history repeats itself;
Hungary was on the wrong side of the iron curtain as well.

2. Cicciolina (Ilona Staller)
is a Hungarian woman who became a porn queen,
and later a member of parliament, in Italy.
After 1990, she was all too present in the Hungarian media.
(Not long ago it was in the news that before she left Hungary
she used to spy for the commies on the guys she slept with.)

3. What all this has to do with Zappa? Don't ask me.


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