IZABO - Time

The Purim celebrations have already started, even though the holiday itself is tomorrow or Thursday, I never really know (and of course celebrations will slide into the weekend- I already see how Facebook will make me feel a bit guilty for having only one costume). Izabo officially released their Eurovision single and it goes great with the festive 'time is short let's get drunk' Purim atmosphere. For the first time in quite a while I might even tune into the contest because I think they have a really good chance of taking a top spot. Choosing Izabo came as quite a surprise because they may be super successful in the indie world (there are no official headliners at the inDnegev festival, but they did perform the prime time slot of Friday night) as well as internationally but they weren't exactly a household name. Some of the "who are these guys anyways??" comments reminded me of the "who is bonny bear?" twitter. I really love the song- the Eurovision is supposed to be light and fun and they really succeeded in that without being too tacky. Plus there's the great mid-eastern vibe and overall it's just a fun song. Not to mention that wishing for a bit more time (and for it to work slower) is something we can all relate to. Izabo always has very creative clips-just see this or this. They've also collaborated with Avraham Tal's The Fools of Prophecy and the one and only Barry Sakharof so I'm really looking forward to Time's video clip. Happy Purim!

Time, time, don’t let me down
You’re the man in my playground
What you say I will obey night and day

Feel free to turn me on
Feel free to change my song
I will count and you will go on sing my song

I say
Time, time, give me only a sign-sign, give me the time
Why are you pressing on me, go to sleep

You got to give me more time
Time, time, why won't you sleep-leep tell me how much time
Why be black and white

Time, time, could you be mine?
I will feed you songs and wine
I’ll make you lazy, I’ll make you late
Wait, wait, wait

Wait, wait, we two are one
But you always take the lead
I lay down and you just run
Mind your speed

I say
Time, time, give me only a sign-sign, give me the time
Why are you pressing on me, go to sleep

You got to give me more time
Time, time, why won't you sleep-leep tell me how much time
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme time
Why be black and white
You don’t know what we talk about

Time time, give me only a sign-sign, give me the time
Why be black and white

Time, time, don’t let me down

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*as promised, here's the video clip. Maybe not as artistic as others but it doesn't disappoint!