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My little sister fights with waves three times her size
while I could easily drown in a glass of tap water,
I wish she could show me how to swim.
She fights with every obstacle and sticks to her goals
while I, in the first difficulty, I hide in my bed
with a frown on my face.
Our mother says she should read more
I say mom let her be
I feel she already knows what it takes to get by,
maybe she should be the boy
of our family.

My little sister deals with big boys.
She has them lining up for her,
she is a femme fatale without a long cigarette holder,
without ermine furs.
Whenever I am back home we lock ourselves in her room,
jump into bed and talk about men, what else,
and the mysteries of love and the wonders of sex.
Sometimes we take things too far
like when we commented on the “turkish delights”
smack bang on the Christmas table.
No wonder she and me lost our cherries
In adjascent rooms, on the same week
on the hot summer of 2000.

My little sister knows how to be tender with my parents
while I can be pretty stiff and I don’t want to be touched too much
but she is huggy and smiley.
And she will hopefully give them those grandchildren they would love
While I will be always be their weird uncle who´s only there at Christmas
and tells wacky stories.
My sister´s husband will be worried
“Should we leave him alone with the kids?”
and she´ll say
“Let him be, the kids like him, can´t you see, he´s so lonely
and besides he doesn´t mean harm at all, he doesn´t mean harm at all
he doesn´t mean harm at all.¨
Little sister I guess it´s high time I said that I am so sorry
for making your life hell.
When we were little I´d bully you all the time, I´d humiliate you,
I´d tell you scary stores just to see your pretty face stained with tears
but you know kids can be little monsters sometimes.
Can your Scorpio heart forget?
I did not mean any harm at all.

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from A Healthy Dose of Pain (LP), released September 19, 2011
Music & lyrics by Evripidis Sabatis.

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Evripidis and his Tragedies Barcelona, Spain

Evripidis and His Tragedies is Evripidis Sabatis. The "Tragedies" are the devastating, confessional, self-sarcastic, darkly humorous songs that draw on his classical piano training, queer sensibility and storytelling skills to examine and own up to the vicissitudes of life. Evripidis' pop inclinations take us for a bumpy, dancey ride across the fine line between tragedy and joie de vivre. ... more

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