The Whole Week Feels Like Saturday (“kol ha-shavua margish kmo shabat” – sounds better in Hebrew) is one of the year’s most popular singles, from one of the year’s most popular disks. Surprisingly enough, considering average Israeli taste in music, it’s also one of my favorite songs.
Note the Tel Aviv backdrop to the video. This whole song is practically an Israeli (and more specifically a Tel-Avivian) manifesto.
Kol Ha-Shavua Margish Kmo Shabat (The Whole Week Feels Like Saturday)
Boaz Banai
Big dreams
Miserable moments
It doesn’t mean anything to me
Just like serving
A life sentence
For a murder that never happened
Can’t find the words
Star of silent films
If only I could
Act a little differently
The thought police
Need to do a search of my head
Chorus:
And I don’t care
The whole week feels like Saturday
I continue in the game
Father is a general
Stands on the tower
Sees everything around
Not from below
Snakes climb
Mother closes all the shutters
Big dreams
Miserable moments
It doesn’t mean anything to me
Just like serving
A life sentence
For a murder that didn’t happen
And I don’t care
The whole week feels like Saturday
I don’t torment myself
Over what doesn’t work out
Big dreams
Miserable moments
It doesn’t mean anything to me
Chorus
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By: earthenvessel346 on July 13, 2008
at 8:58 am