Name: Póstkort
Duration: P00H04M08S
Description: A song for all the young and over enthusiastic people who seek to make this world a better place. Next time they by a T-shirt from one of the big fashion designers with Che Guevara's face on the front they should take a moment and think about the children in various sweat-shops around the world who slave to make them for nickels and dimes.

Póstkort

from Menn Ársins by Menn Ársins

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A song for all the young and over enthusiastic people who seek to make this world a better place. Next time they by a T-shirt from one of the big fashion designers with Che Guevara's face on the front they should take a moment and think about the children in various sweat-shops around the world who slave to make them for nickels and dimes.

lyrics

Þú sendir mér póstkort
frá öðrum stað
eitthvað amaði að
en hvað um það
veðrið var ljómandi fínt.

Þér leiddist að bíða
hvað sem er
varst hvort eð er
með sjálfum þér
búinn að afskrifa flest.

En manstu er þú barðist
fyrir bugaða og smáa
með byssuna að vopni
og hugmyndina háa
en nú er andlit þitt falt
á fimm dollara flíspeysum
gerðum af smælingjum
í framandi löndum.

Trúðir því varla
að tískudrottningin
svo útsmogin
og kaldhæðin
sygi úr þér allt þitt blóð.

En manstu er þú barðist
fyrir fátæka og smáða
hést því við allt heilagt
að hvetja þá til dáða
og nú er andlit þitt falt
á fimm dollara flíspeysum
gerðum af smástrákum
sem fá þrjú sent á stykkið.

Og meðvituð ungmenni
arka í fimm dollara flíspeysum
uppfull af hugmyndum
um betri heim handa smælingjum.

Þú sendir mér póstkort
frá öðrum stað
eitthvað amaði að
en hvað um það
veðrið var ljómandi fínt.

credits

from Menn Ársins, released September 29, 2008
Haraldur Vignir: piano, backing vocals
Kjartan Guðnason: drums
Sigurdór Guðmundsson: electric bass
Sváfnir Sigurðarson: acoustic guitar, vocals

Kristján Matthíasson: violin
Sigurgeir Agnarsson: cello

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