Hungary Like The Wolf Lyrics
Well the season may be over the spirit lives on. There are any life lessons you can take out of childhood rec sports it’s that everybody plays and everyone gets an award. And the most important part of any season is the end of the year pizza and awards party. Well replace the pizza with beer and I still consider it the most important part.
Hence the Teem Wolf Awards, easily the party of the semester. Cause if there is one thing that Teem Wolf has more than heart it’s a drinking problem. There was beer pong, Natty Light, whipped cream body shots, a screening of Teen Wolf Too (Teen Wolf was inexplicably sold out in all 6 places I tried), one party foul that saw a bottle of wine explode on the rug and of course a bottle of Jim Beam through a straw.
And that was all in addition to the awards. Some of you may not care enough to read the complete listing of the awards, but then some of you don’t have the heart of the wolf. Each honoree got their own little Cup of Victory from which they all got a Shot of Victory and a round of applause from a packed house.
The awards:
Rookie of the Year: Liz
The first game of the year she caught her first pass and then threw it further down the field (“I thought that is what I was suppose to do”) but since then she has become just a force in the secondary and a safe hands receiver.
Dances with Wolves Award: Adrian
For the only Wolf with the energy to go right from games to Salsa class.
White Fang Award: Moses
College football has the Heisman, college flag football has the White Fang, given to the season’s best player. (Called the White Fang cause that was the only wolf I could think of who actually had a name)
Werewolf Award: Matt
Wikipedia describes werewolf sightings as rare and unconfirmed, as were Matt’s appearances on the field. (But look how daintily he drinks his shot.)
Virginia Wolf Award: Annie
As in who’s Afraid of? The answer? Everybody. Annie led the league in forcing dropped passes. Opponents just heard her footsteps and let go of the ball.
Wolfie McWolfhausen Award: Mark
For the Wolf who personified the spirit of Teem Wolf more than anyone else. Whenever I was needing inspiration he would be emailing me lists of wolf quotes, videos of wolf attacks or lyrics to wolf songs. He played hurt, he played with heart, he played like the wolf.
Most Photogenic Wolf: Brian
This was gonna be the lone wolf award for the way Brian would disappear to go be responsible instead of drink after games. But after looking at this picture, where is wolf like ferocity just leaps off the screen at you, there was really no other choice.
Rupert “Stiles” Stilinski Award: Jacob
One of Teem Wolf’s most prestigious awards, it is in the name of Teen Wolf’s greatest character and its brilliant marketing genius, Michael J Fox’s best friend Stiles. The man who in many ways made Teem Wolf what it was and is responsible for Teem Wolf’s most distinctive emblem (other than heart): bandanas.
Beowulf Award: Danielle
Beowulf is an ancient poem about a hero. Danielle is an ancient hero (alright not ancient but she’s older than most of us and cool enough not to care if I make a crack about her age and dammit its hard to come up with more than a dozen wolf related awards so cut me slack)
Hungary Like the Wolf: Bill
This award goes to Bill’s outstanding drunken performance at Taco Bell after week 2. Just amazing.
Ironmen Award: The Johns.
Other than me, these are the only two guys with the heart to play every game this season. They are also responsible for the season’s two greatest plays.
Offensive Play of the Year: Alaskan John
The immaculate reception. If you didn’t see it a description can’t do it justice but the man caught a deflected pass in stride over his shoulder and took it all the way downfield for a score to cap off Teem Wolf’s most heartfelt game.
Defensive Play of the Year: Lil’ John
Oddly enough, occurring in the same game as the OPotY, this award goes to 5’6’’ John for his heroic if doomed coverage of their 6’4’’ wide receiver on a jump ball in the back of the end zone.
Big Bad Wolf Award: Lauren
Teem Wolf wouldn’t have existed without her, and as co-captain, her playing the heavy ensured we got enough people to the games each week while freeing me up to focus on writing preposterously over the top emails and working on clichés to scream at the team from the sideline.
I gave myself the Coach Bobby Finstock Award. Named after the coach in Teem Wolf who gave perhaps the greatest, most surreal advice in the history of sports and who I tried to emulate with every inspiration email I sent.
“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.”
Now I personally don’t think that advice can ever be topped. But I confess Teem Wolf brought tears to my eyes when they presented me with a poem that they had made in my honor, by taking lines from all of the emails that I wrote, all the rants and raves, pleads and condemnations and putting them together in what has to be the greatest literary work since I was five and first read Richard Scary’s “Cars and Trucks and Things that Go”. See the following post for the full poem.
With that, the final event of the 2007 Teem Wolf season wound to a close, sometime just shy of 3am. But the wolves will be back, terrorizing softball fields this spring. And dare I say it, but 2008 flag football champions: Teem Wolf Too?
The song
More than any regulation, norm, treaty, or even a common currency could ever accomplish, music has always touched the hearts of people.
We needed a song, a hymn for our pro-European movement. Something a viral marketeer would feel enthusiastic about.
There has never been an uplifting, authentic, pro-European song out there which could hit the dance floors across the continent. 50% of the well-known songs are about blooming love, the other 50% are about fading love. We needed a producer…
Leon Larkin is an American producer, singer, songwriter, and owner of Larkpro Music Productions based in Berlin and Mallorca. Florian and Leon met at an event in Berlin in October 2008. Leon’s first comment was: “Blackberry, hugh?” That was clearly too much of a conversation, so it proceeded. After that first encounter they stayed in contact.
Ironically, the only sound that works with people from all over Europe is the American sound. Our song had to lean against this unwritten rule. RnB for the baseline, RnB for the hookline. But we also wanted to reflect the European musical roots, which led us to the idea of granting protagonism to classical instruments like the piano.
Leon asked Florian to write the lyrics, Florian incredulously answered: “What?!”
The current version of “I am European (The Festival Hymn)” was recorded and produced in the Larkpro Studios in April 2009. The voices in the sung parts belong to several Berlin based international artists from Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and the UK. The rap parts are performed by an Unknown European.
Title: I am European (The Festival Hymn)
Length: 4:00 m
Project Name: Voices of Europe
Performed by: Wanja Janeva, Trevor B. Lewis, Silinya Meden, Adesse Roessner, Silvia Scheumka (Vocals) // The Unknown European (Rap parts) // Trevor B. Lewis (Guitar)
Lyrics by: Florian Mück
Music by: Leon Larkin, Rob Priebs & George Kaleve
Produced by: Leon Larkin and Rob Priebs for Larkpro Music
Mixed by: George Kaleve
Mastered by: Thomas Peters
The Lyrics
Greek dance, Tour de France, Appenzeller, football fans,
Colossus of Rhodes and magic dragon Amsterdam,
Swiss watches, beer bar, Döner Kebab, sauna,
Flamenco, help for Africa, Yves Saint Laurent the mega star,
Croatian islands, Mozart, Spring of Prague, German cars,
BB lips, Pommes Frites, Norwegian fjord, and Cold Play hits,
Scottish kilt, oil rigs, the Irish and Saint Patrick’s,
French wine, Spanish wine, Italian wine, Neuschwanstein…
I am European – and I love it to be
I am European – it’s my destiny
I am European – that’s my place to be
I am European – you’re my family
I am European – and I love it to be
Black Sea, Baltic Sea, everywhere democracy,
Philosophers, Socrates, Seneca, and Champions League,
MP3, ecology, in our hearts Versace!
Beethoven, Pizza, the English on Ibiza,
French baguette, Basque beret, Romeo & Juliet,
Shopska Salata, Kopernikus, Smetana,
Fish & Chips, Kafka, Oktoberfest laughter,
The Swedish and Midsummer night, the dream of Shakespeare set it right…
Many roots, many hearts
Many souls, many stars
Many dreams, many me’s,
We’re all Europeans! // One Europe, our destiny!
I am European – and I love it to be
I am European – it’s my destiny
I am European – that’s my place to be
I am European – you’re my family
I am European – and I love it to be
© 2009 thefestival.eu
Behind The Lyrics
“Imagine… Once you start to feel European, this could be all yours!”
How to write a song about Europe? More than 500 Million different points of view. More traditions than anybody could ever count. Impossible to generate content in only 16 lines, more or less, plus the hookline, which would attract the attention of this melting-pot of cultures and tastes. Then we thought, what about expressing in a simple way how rich we are in heritage and culture. Expressions that everyone would automatically relate to Europe, like Fish & Chips or Mozart. Billy Joel once had a hit called “We didn’t start the fire”. This sequence of expressions might work for the European context as well… Two days later we came up with a list of 138 typically European expressions. 52 of them we put in order and rhymes. In the end, we came up with the following…
