They're locking down the planet now as liberties unravel
I hope you're in your happy place because it's hard to travel
Me I'm being Athenian and loving every minute
A place like this, a time like this, it's easy to be in it
I guess the only question, now I can't leave anyhow
Is how to be a little more Athenian than thou

The feral cats are friendly and the coffee's good and cheap
And up the hill from me I see a markеt marks the street
A maze of orange parasols, a blazе of fruit and veg
A radical rembetiko twinkling at the edge
In the National Garden for their Instagram accounts
Teenagers throw poses as sexy as the plants
I took the tram to Edem and the shingle to the gulls
I felt the need to climb the sea or swim the hills
I don't know what to say unless I say today
Has been Athenian in every way

Athenian by name, Athenian by nature
You glide along the beaches from Piraeus to Glyfada
Go shopping in Kifissia like it's Beverly Hills
AWOL in Kolonaki, ogling the girls
The views from Likabetus and Philopappou hill
Although you climb a thousand times they still give you a thrill
I guess the only question, now you can't leave anyhow
Is how to be a little more Athenian than thou
Then ime touristas, eh malakka, ime Atheneias!