They are happy to be served by refugees ‘they fry your frites’, but they turn a blind eye to the bad treatment the refugees suffer: ‘deportations, beatings, sleaze’. Despite the reputation of Amsterdam and its inhabitants as being tolerant, in reality the situation is very different, according to the singer. Amsterdam seems to be all but a paradise for refugees, illegal immigrants and also the poor: ‘yes, there’s beggars on your streets'.