ABSTRACT

The singers are singing about Bill’s place in Bilbao, an old hangout for the crowd that has gathered. They reminisce about the good times they used to have at a low cost and lament the higher costs that they must pay now that their favorite establishment is respectable. The singers also lament that their hangout was “cleaned up and … middle class” and is too “bourgeois.” It appears that Bill’s place is a victim of gentrification.