Well, I, I arrive here in the late '60, '69 I think it was
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And I found a paradise, something then I couldn’t believe
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I mean, it was a beautiful place with fantastic weather
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And the payéses and the extranjeros, they were here
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They were, most of them were Americans, Canadians, Swedish
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And, um, painters, artists
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Fantastic people, there were no classes
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The houses, they were open, nobody closed the doors
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It was a great, great, uh, life
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I came in 1972
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And, um, I came, I arrived to an island which was virgin nature
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And sunny, there’s flowers and everything was green and
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Uh, it was just so overwhelming that I couldn’t believe it
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It just, uh, it just hit me so strongly
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That I, uh, felt like being in paradise
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In Spanish, it’s Anna Maria «Noche y Día»
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It’s mean Ana Maria «Day and Night»
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Because I was everywhere
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I don’t want to lose one minute of this party
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Or in the beach or in the discotheques
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Everywhere I was, I tried to be
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All around the island, always twenty-four hours
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I was sleeping nothing
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Just few hours sometimes when my body was going to die
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When I start to work in Pacha
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They tell me, «You can be go-go dancer»
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And I said, «Yes, but please with one clause
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At five o’clock in the morning, I want to go away»
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And then, the boss of the dancer in this time
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She say the, «Okay, you can do it, but straight up
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Don’t say this to anyone
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And when it’s five o’clock, you just take the door and go where you want»
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And so, five o’clock every night, when I finished work
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I ran to dance in another discotheque and
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I ran to Ku to make more friends here around
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Like this, uh, it was okay
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The minute I came here
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Just getting out of the plane, landing in Ibiza
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I knew this was my place forever
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I don’t know, even the smell I adored
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I felt this is my home
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My name is Rossetta Montenegro, I was born in Venezuela
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But I live many part of the planet so I got to meet so many people
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Everyone came to see me in Ibiza during those days and now still
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I work in, um Pacha, I work in Ku, I work in Amnesia
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I work in all over the places here
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Imagine Ibiza in the '72, used to live with the payéses
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And, uh, they were really nice people, you know
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They didn’t get impress about our outfits that were really freak
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You know, I mean, we were freak
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We used to get whatever
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A bottle of Coke, we’d cut it and we’d make, uh
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Two things for a bra, you know?
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It was really funny
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The fantasy that all the people used to have that time
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At least at that time, we used to have two or three pareo
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You can, you wear it on the head, over the, the shoulders as a child
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And we only carry a basket, this Incan basket
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With all our stuff there
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So we didn’t have to go to our house to get things, you know
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No, it was easy going
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You know, we used to go to the disco without, barefoot
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In bathing suits with a pareo
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And sometimes, people naked
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Full of colors and things, you know, but, uh, flowers all over
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Going close to paradise, but we took the wrong way
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I don’t know, maybe this is the right way, we don’t know, but
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It didn’t go the way we were expecting
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When I say «we,» I’m talking about
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All these freaks then we had dreams
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Somebody asked me about her and then, «What do you think about that?»
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And I say that would’ve been, that’s what I really believed
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It was a paradise, absolute paradise
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Somehow, it took a way then became what it is now
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And I’m sure people that arrive now are still thinking that that’s a paradise
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Definitely it’s not the paradise that we knew, it’s another paradise
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But maybe now is the, I don’t know, I’m not sure about anything
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Reality is not the same for everybody, so
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We use the words in a way like if it is an absolute truth, that don’t exist
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That makes the thing more complicated |