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Ψέμα

Ψέμα, απόψε είπες το μεγάλο ψέμα

τα χρόνια λες και ήταν όλα ξένα

αυτά που περπατήσαμε μαζί

                                               

Ψέμα, απόψε είπες το μεγάλο ψέμα

και ξέρεις πως περίμενα από σένα

ο λόγος σου να έχει υπογραφή

Ένα ψέμα σαν βαρδάρης σήκωσε θυμούς

τρέχα τώρα να φρενάρεις λύπες και καημούς

ένα ψέμα κι απ' τ' αστέρια πιάσαμε βυθό

κι όπως ήρθα μες στη νύχτα έτσι θα χαθώ

Ψέμα, απόψε είπες το μεγάλο ψέμα

να μην υπολογίζεις πια σε μένα

απόφαση είναι αυτό κι όχι απειλή

Ψέμα, απόψε είπες το μεγάλο ψέμα

για σένα είναι μια ντροπή στο βλέμμα

για μένα η χαριστική βολή

Ένα ψέμα σαν βαρδάρης σήκωσε θυμούς

τρέχα τώρα να φρενάρεις λύπες και καημούς

ένα ψέμα κι απ' τ' αστέρια πιάσαμε βυθό

κι όπως ήρθα μες στη νύχτα έτσι θα χαθώ

               Lie

Lie, tonight you said the big lie

as if all the years were strange,

those years we walked together.

                                               

Lie, tonight you said the big lie

and you know that I expected from  you

your word to have a signature (to be valid)

A lie like Bardaris created angers,  

run now to stop the sorrows and the grieves.

A lie, and from the stars we reached the bottoms

and as I came in the night I will get lost.

Lie, tonight you said the big lie

and count on me no longer.

This is a decision, not a threat.

Lie, tonight you said the big lie,

for you its a shame in your eyes

for me its the final shot.

A lie like Bardaris created angers,  

run now to stop the sorrows and the grieves.

A lie, and from the stars we reached the bottoms

and as I came in the night I will get lost.

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Niki, your thoughts, my thoughts...

I did this song too, just now, during the Christmas holidays. I'll post it for comparison.

I can not listen to it anymore since I know what it says.

Lie

Music: Christos Nikolopoulos

Lyrics: Filippos Grapsas

The lie, tonight you told the big lie

You speak of the years, and they were all unrecognizable

the things we went through together

The lie, tonight you told the big lie

and you know what I expected from you

your word to be a binding signature

A lie raised the anger like the stormwind

now I have rushed off so you can slow down the pains and misery

a lie and from the the stars we fall into the abyss

and as I came with the night, thus I will disappear

The lie, tonight you told the big lie

so that you have no responsibility to me any more

that is a decision and not a threat

The lie, tonight you told the big lie

for you, it is one ashamed glance,

for me, [it is] the death blow

A lie raised the anger like the stormwind...

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I don't.

Like my translation.

Imagine. You start working on this "nice song". Slowly, bit by bit, the meaning emerges, and it's exactly, exactly what someone has been saying to you. Exactly what you have been accused of. In practically the same words!

And you start to wonder, all over again, if maybe the accusations are true.

"You give me that ashamed look, but to me it's death"; "all the years together, unrecognizable"; "you told the big lie so you have no responsibility to me anymore"; "I thought your word would bind you"... the man I left told me exactly that. I mean, exactly. The same words. How spooky does it get???

He accused me. I said "not guilty". I left.

But can you imagine what it's like, when suddenly the accusation is repeated, in Dalaras' voice? The one I can't ignore.

If you had not posted it, I would have buried it and tried to forget it. And quite possibly never played Καλώς τους again.

But it doesn't do, hiding. It doesn't work. I'll have to answer, somehow, somewhere. I'll have to face up.

Niki.

Thank you for your help!

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To lighten up a bit: I've been translating all the songs on Καλώς τους - only two to go: Μεσόγειος and 'Εβγαλα τα μέσα έξω. Will post them at some point...

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