I Will Delay - From The Album: Angela Merkel: The Euro Years

Þessi dægurlagatexti var að detta inn í pósthólfið mitt.  Hér "syngur" Angela Merkel þekkt lag Gloriu Gaynor, með nýjum texta.   Eftir því sem ég kemst næst útgáfudagur ekki ljós, en þeir sem vilja spreyta sig í söngnum, er bent á karaoki útgáfu sem hægt er að nota sem undirspil  og ég hef sett hér með.

I Will Delay (from Angela Merkel: The Euro Years)

First I was angstvoll, I was petrified

Greece looking like defaulting, Ireland on the slide

I spent oh so many years with the euro much too strong

Now it’s not even clear, which countries should belong

And so we’re back

At the Council

With Nicolas, and Enda, and Silvio as well

We should have tightened up the rulebook

For the single currency

If we’d known for just one second

We’d fund this facility

Go on now go, down to Brussels

We’ll fly over and talk some more, while the market sells

They want a big bazooka, a comprehensive fix,

An ECB-backed bailout fund, but we’ll give them nix.

It’s all okay! We can delay!

We’ll have a weekend summit

And another one Wednesday

There’s a G-20 coming up

For the Greeks it’s just tough luck

Let’s just delay

Til someone pays…

And then cross-border banks started to fall apart

Talk of haircuts and big writedowns nearly broke my heart

I spent oh so many nights in the Justus Lipsius

Talking late

Til we said ‘just make them wait!’

You see these bonds

They’re something new,

Fudge them with the ESM, it might just get us through

Markets in a tailspin, spreads about to burst

I wish we’d kept our promise from July the twenty-first

Call the BRICs and Jean-Claude Trichet, hope that we can cheat our fate

And maybe in the meantime let’s just name another date?

Come on again, down to Brussels

We’ll work on technicalities while the true Finns yell,

Markets may be seized up, there’s no liquidity,

But we’ll create distraction by chastising Italy,

It’s all okay! We can delay!

We’ll have a weekend summit

And another one Wednesday

There’s a G-20 coming up

For the Greeks it’s just tough luck

Let’s just delay

Til someone pays…