Kompleksi vs. Polytron - Moscow 1980

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held in Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk. The 1980 Games were the first to be staged in Eastern Europe.

The United States and 64 other countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, though athletes from some boycotting countries participated in the games, under the Olympic Flag. This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Artist: Kompleksi
Track: Moscow 1980 (with Polytron)
Album: Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco
Label: Verdura Records
Cat.#: VERDU-24
Country: Finland
Year: 2008

Note: Based on the original instrumental track by Polytron.

Lyrics:

The heroes gathered on the Stadium
and Mischka The Bear would wave at us
There were fireworks, parades
and the shining future waiting for us

The nations together in
peace, science and progress
There was nothing
that could us depress

We clapped our hands,
me and my brother in...

(chorus:)

Moscow nineteen-eighty
Moscow nineteen-eighty
Moscow nineteen-eighty
...

Our sister was a Pioneer
our mother worked in a laboratory
and our uncle always had
one vodka too many
But we weren't sorry
we were together,
me and my brother in...

(chorus)

If the Yanks could see us glow,
said he when
the night grew dim over Moscow
We watched the stars over the Prospekt
me any my brother in...

(chorus)

"Do you think the war will last long?",
to my brother I asked
"No, says the Party, and
the Party is always right.
By the way, soon they said
they're going to send me to fight."

"And I will come back with medals on chest,
hero of the war, the honoured guest.
And all the kids in the neighbourhood
will ask: 'Is that your brother?'
And you'll blush: 'Yes'.
You'll see Sasha,
you'll be proud of me."

So spoke he to me
in our last summer together
That was the story of
me and my brother in...

(chorus)

Whatever happened to your dreams?
Whatever happened to your dreams?
Whatever happened to your dreams?
Whatever happened to your dreams?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Moscow 1980
• Olympic games
• Kompleksi
• Polytron
• Finland
• Finnish electro
• Finnish synthpop
• Moscow
• Soviet Union
• Russia