Friday 11 May 2007

Lyrics

I bought red glasses and everything around me looks like a cinema movie
and I don't know how to live, I don't know how to love
I just watch my life
I bought a red pen, follow the coastline and write
songs of fire, songs of blaze
I just copy my life

Oh, how beautiful the sun and the morning are
and what a pain the friend who cries ''trip'' is
Oh, how beautiful the moon is when it comes out to see us
holding a light for the love's feast

I bought a red heart and wear a loose shirt
and I ask the people who know about love to tell me whom I should give love to
I bought red wings, have a good time and laugh
I touch the snow's body and the martlet's tail
I talk into God's ears.

Oh, how beautiful the sun and the morning are
and what a pain the friend who cries ''trip'' is
Oh, how beautiful the moon is when it comes out to see us
holding a lightfor the love's feast

S. Kraounakis
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The North Star will drive the clouds off
but before the sail cloth appears in the sea
I will become wave and fire to hug you, foreign land
and you, my fatherland, now lost and distant
you will become a cuddle and a wound at the same time
as soon as you wake up in this foreign land

Now I jump into life's feast
Now I jump into joy's celebration

My old moons, my new birds
drive the sun and the day off the mountain
so as to see me passing by like a lightning.

M. Hatzidakis/N. Gatsos

2 comments:

Ali said...

Both amazing buddy, especially the second one. I should say I enjoyed your translation more than the original song. Yes, I can't understand greek. But the song that now is playing has something. Thanks for playing it again...This moments will never repeat, believe me buddy...

Niki said...

those are great.

and please write more in english ;D