Who wants to send me a Christmas gift?

[Thalassa]

I would be very happy to receive as a Christmas gift the lyrics (in latin alphabet, preferably) and, if possible, the translation for one (or more..) of the following songs: (you have the choice...)
-- Alexiou & Dalaras - To zeimpekiko kormi sou
-- Dalaras - Ola kala
-- Dalaras & Bregovic - Kane kouragio, Anna
-- Manto - Telefteria fora
-- Melina Kana - Fili amethysto
-- G. Kotsiras - Se mian Athina vromiki
-- Xatzigiannis - Paraxeni giorti
-- Vasilis Papakonstantinou - Mi fygeis
-- Tania Tsanaklidou - Hliahtida
-- Alexiou - To bloko tis Kesarianis
-- Protopsalti - Kathreptis
-- Kaiti Garbi - To kati

Many thanks in advance for your kind Christmas gift and have pleasant holidays!

[maria_gr]

Mihalis Hatzigiannis – Parakseni giorti

Ola kala
Everything’s fine

Ola kala ki ola orea
Everything is fine and beautiful
htes isoun m’ alone parea
yesterday you were with someone else
ke pou sokaki na tragoudisis
and where (is) a street to song
den epitreponte I anamnisis
memories aren’t allowed

Mila siga ke mi fonazis
Speak calmly and don’t shout
ime koutos ke me tromazis
I’m silly and you scare me
de thelo kosmo ke fasaria
I don’t want people and noise
avrio beno stin anergia
tomorrow I go into unemployment

Eho psihi, den eho vraho
I have soul, not a rock
pali me afises monaho
you left me alone again
ke mia simea s’ ena balcony
and a flag on a balcony
allazi hromata ke me skotoni
changes colours and it kills me

Ola kala ki ola orea
Everything is fine and beautiful
htes isoun m’ alone parea
yesterday you were with someone else
ke pou sokaki na tragoudisis
and where (is) a street to song
den epitreponte I anamnisis
memories aren’t allowed

[NARDY BERNAL]

Hi! I just found the lyrics of this... in Greek


Εσύ φιγούρα καραβίσια
Και εγώ μια θάλασσα που σε κυκλώνει
Να μη μ' αφήνεις μόνη

Εσύ ανοίγεις τα πανιά
Και εγώ την αγκαλιά μου να αρμενίζεις
Να φεύγεις να γυρίζεις

Μες το Ζεϊμπέκικο κορμί σου
Ταξιδεύεις όλα εκείνα που αγαπώ
Κύμα η ψυχή μου και θυμήσου
Για δρόμο δίχως γυρισμό
ένα ταξίδι είμαι και εγώ
Μες το Ζεϊμπέκικο κορμί σου

Εσύ ανοίγεσαι βαθιά
Και βρέχω χίλια χάδια στο σκαρί σου
Σαν σπάω στο φιλί σου

Τους καιρούς δεν τους φοβάσαι
Σε λιμάνια δεν κοιμάσαι
Έχεις λύσει τα σχοινιά
Άγριο πράγμα η ομορφιά

Μες το Ζεϊμπέκικο

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and Greeklish

Esi figoura karabisia
Kai ego mia thalassa pou se kyklonei
Na mi m' afineis moni

Esi anoigeis ta pania
Kai ego tin agkalia mou na armenizeis
Na feygeis na gyrizeis


Mes to Zeimpekiko kormi sou
Taksideyeis ola ekeina pou agapo
Kyma i psyhi moy kai thymisou
Gia dromo dihos gyrismo
ena taksidi eimai kai ego
Mes to Zeimpekiko kormi sou



Esi anoigesai bathia
Kai breho hilia hadia sto skari sou
San spao sto fili sou


Tous kairoys den tous fobasai
Se limania den koimasai
Eheis lysei ta shoinia
Agrio pragma i omorfia
Mes to Zeimpekiko

[Thalassa]

Thank you Maria gr and NARDY BERNAL for your gifts. I hope Santa Claus has been generous with you...

[NARDY BERNAL]

Kane kouragio, Anna.
Palepse ta hronia.
Anna mou, me tis alliotikes synitheies,
tis alliotikes kiniseis.
Eihes poly kaloys tropois.
Fainotan oti isoun apo allo kosmo.
Omos, esi ekanes o,ti mporouses
gia na min to deihneis.
Den perifronouses ti ftoheia
alla oute se goiteye idiaitera.
Ola se sena itan diaforetika.
To domatio sou me ta spania antikeimena,
ta grammata, ta dora sou...
Sigoura, eihes kalytero goysto apo mena!
Erhosoun kai m' ebriskes.
To krebati mou, to stithos sou...
Anna, mikri prostyhi kyria.
Kai kato ap' ta parathyra bregmenos dromos,
o ihos tou trenoy, to souroupo.
Kai to domatio mou, Anna,
kremasmeno ston aera,
san portokali.
Kane kouragio Anna.


Pou na 'sai tora;
Poios kserei pos pernas...
Pou na 'sai tora; Ah pos anteheis;
Horis na eheis afto pou agapas
kai dihos n' agapas afto pou eheis...

Ksereis Anna emeis oi dyo
itan grafto na synantithoyme.
Ti na kseroun; Pos mporoun na kseroun oi alloi;
Synomiliki, mikri eromeni mou.
Thymasai; Ekatommyria stigmes,
stigmes pou oso pane kai ligosteyoun,
etsi opos kapoioi tis leilatoun
mprosta sta matia mas, kathe mera.
Adika paleio na tis kratiso, adika.
kylane bouba kai fevgoun
pros ti megali thalassa.
Perasan tosa hronia.
Den forao pia to foititiko mou mpoufan
kai diskolegomai na synithiso
afto to kalorameno koustoumi.
Den perifrono to hrima
alla oute me goiteyei idiaitera.
Motsart, Rekbiem, Agnus Dei, Yesterday.

Apopse tha 'rtho sto proto sou oneiro.
Mi geraseis Anna, mi geraseis.
Pes psemata ston antra sou.
Skise tin prosklisi, akurose to deipno.
Akoumpise me, opos tote, me to gonato sou
kato apo to trapezi.
Apopse, Anna.

Sto kalytero ksenodoheio.
Apopse.
Sto proto sou oneiro.

Kane kouragio Anna.


Pou na 'sai tora;

Poios kserei pos pernas...
Pou na 'sai tora; Ah pos anteheis;
Horis na eheis afto pou agapas
kai dihos n' agapas afto pou eheis...


Mi geraseis Anna, mi geraseis.
Giati de tha 'ho pia kanenan kai tipota
na me kratisei neo.
Monos mou epimeno akoma edo,
parolo pou arhise pali na brehei,
etsi opos brehei panta sta nisia
Oktobri mina.
Thymasai;
Thalassa apo molybi kai ouranos apo peyka.
Apomakres, anakates fones.
I foni tis miteras, tou filoi, tis koris,
tou adelfoi, tis eromenis,
tis seirinas tou ploioy.
Royha leyka, biastika mazemena,
ligo prin ti brohi.

Mazi toys hathike kai to fos.
Enas syntomos peripatos,
akoma...ekei.Dipla sti thalassa.
Ki ystera...telos, telos.
Kane koyragio, Anna.
Poy na 'sai tora;



Have courage Anna,
fight with time
My Anna, with different habits
different moves
You had very good manners
It was obvious that you were coming from another world
But you were doing everything you could
in order not to show it
You didn't contemn poorness
but it didn't attract you as well
Everything in you was different
Your room with the rare objects
the letters, the gifts
You bet that you had a better taste than mine!
You were coming to find me
My bed, your breast...
Anna, little dirty lady
And outside (down) the windows, a wet road
the sound of the train, the nightfall
And my room, Anna
hanged in the air
like an orange
Have courage Anna

Who knows where you are now
who knows how you are doing
Who knows where you are now. How you can do
without having what you love
and without loving what you have...

You know Anna, for the two of us,
it was written (in the destiny) to meet
What could others know? How could they know?
My coetaneous, little lover
Do you remember? Millions of moments
moments that become fewer and fewer
as some foray them
in front of our eyes, every day
Hopelessly I fight to keep them, hopelessly (! again)
they trickle slow and they go
towards the big sea
So many years have passed
I don't wear my student jacket anymore
and I can hardly get used
to this well needled costume
I don't contemn money
but it doesn't attract me so much
.........................

Tonight I will visit your first dream
Don't get old Anna, don't get old
Lie to your husband
Rip the invitation, cancel the dinner
Touch me, like that time, with your knee
under the table
Tonight, Anna
In the best hotel
Tonight
In your first dream
have courage Anna

Who knows where you are now
who knows how you are doing
Who knows where you are now. How you can do
without having what you love
and without loving what you have...

Don't get old Anna, don't get old
because I won't have anybody and anything
to keep me young
I am alone, still insisting here
although it has again started to rain
as it always rains in the islands
during October
Remember?
A sea made of lead and a sky of pines
Remote, mixed voices
The voice of the mother, of the friend, of the daughter,
of the brother, of the lover
of the siren of the ship
White clothes, removed quickly
just before the rain
The light was lost with them
A short walk
still...there. Next to the sea
And then...the end, the end
Have courage Anna

Who knows where you are now...

[maria_gr]

To Zeimpekiko kormi sou
The zeibekiko of your body

Esi figoura karavisia
You, a figure of ship
Ke ego mia thalassa pou se kikloni
And I, a sea that surrounds you
Na mi m' afinis moni
In order not to leave me alone

Esi anigis ta pania
You open the sails
Ki ego tin agkalia mou na armenizis
And I (open) my embrace for you to sail in ti
Na feygeis na gyrizeis
To go away and to return

Mes to Zeimpekiko kormi sou
In the zeibekiko of your body
Taksidevis ola ekina pou agapo
You travel all those that I love
Kima i psihi mou ke thimisou
My soul is wave and remember
Gia dromo dihos girismo
For a road without return
ena taksidi ime ki ego
I’m a travel too
Mes to Zeimpekiko kormi sou
In the zeibekiko of your body

Esi anigese vathia
You go to deep seas
Ke vreho hilia hadia sto skari sou
And I wet thousand caresses on your ship
San spao sto fili sou
When I break to your kiss

Tous kairous den tous fobasai
You’re not afraid of weather
Se limania den kimase
You don’t sleep to the ports
Ehis lisi ta shinia
You have untied the ropes
Agrio pragma i omorfia
Beauty is a wild thing
Mes to Zeimpekiko
In zeibekiko

[maria_gr]

Teleftea fora
Last time

I teleftea mas fora
Our last time (is)
Doro Theou i simfora
A gift from God or disaster
De mou meni keros na se piso
There isn’t time left to convince you
Ke to soma afto perno piso
And this body I take it back
Stin adia thesi mou that vris
In my empty position you’ll find
Ena simioma vrohis
A note of rain
Ma sti thiela otan ksipnisis
But when you wake up in the storm
Na me dis ksana mi zitisis
Don’t ask to see me again

Se krato sfihta sta skotina
I hold you tight in the dark
Teleftea fora
For the last time
De tha po to s' agapo ksana
I won’t say “I love you” again
Tora tipota pia
Now nothing more
Se krato sfihta sta skotina
I hold you tight in the dark
Teleftea fora
For the last time
Se kito ke kati me pona
I look at you and something hurts me
Teleftea fora
For the last time

Pente ke misi
It’s five thirty
Se rotao siopila
I ask you silently
Pos ginan kommatia ekina ta filia
How did these kisses break into pieces
Pente ke misi
It’s five thirty
Onira kitas
You watch dreams
Teliose, teliose t' oniro gia mas
It’s over, it’s over the dream for us

Tin teleftea mas fora
Our last time
Vourkoni kapia diafora
Some difference is weeping it
Imoun moni ke to veveoni
I was alone and it can assure it
Dakri ipografi sto sentoni
Tear, signature on the sheet
Edo afino tin kardia
I leave the heart here
Sto maksilari ta klidia
On the pillow the keys
Dio filia sto hali na petaksis
Throw two kisses on the carpet
Ma de tha me vris, min psaksis
But you won’t find me, don’t look for me

[Thalassa]

Many thanks for your contribution. I send you kisses and best wishes for next year, Maria mou!

P.S. How could you translate/explain "zeibekiko" ? Strong? Courageous? It's probably difficult to translate...

[Cristina]

Originally Posted by Thalassa

Many thanks for your contribution. I send you kisses and best wishes for next year, Maria mou!

P.S. How could you translate/explain "zeibekiko" ? Strong? Courageous? It's probably difficult to translate...

It is a type of dance...a traditional greek dance.

[Amethystos]

Zeibekiko is a song that is written in 9/8 rythm.

It's name comes from "zeibekis". Zeibekis was called a policeman or soldier of Ottoman empire that was Greek and Turks made him Muslim at his childhood - by force.

According to a documentary i've watched recently, it was a dance of war. The dancer had his head facing down and his body ALWAYS stuck to earth (it meant that the ground gives the strength), but there were a few times during the song that dancer were looking high and opening his hands wide (it meant that he already had enough energy to get into the fight).

It's the only dance that has NO steps, and nowadays represents the dance of a very sad man (that's why, it's extremely difficult to find a zeibekiko with happy lyrics).

Finally i have to say that you can't dance zeibekiko (decently) anytime, it's a dance that you have to feel that music and lyrics suits you at that particular moment.

I hope i helped...

[Neslihan]

To Kati from Kaiti Garbi
den m’ endiaferei t’ akrivo sou to roloi
den m’ endiaferei an eheis hrimata polla
oute an tis gommenes tis kamneis kompoloi
kai heis kai dio kinita

den m’ endiaferei an eisai assos sto krevati
den m’ endiaferei an den kourazesai pote
den m’ endiaferei an eheis Mersedes hlidati
ei sport di8esia BeMWe


den m’ endiaferei an eheis gumnasmeno sti8os
den m’ endiaferei an eisai perizititos
ki an guro ap to onoma sou epikratei enas mu8os
ksereis os pros to mege8os...

mm……

den m’ endiaferei an eheis valei skoulariki
den m’ endiaferei an eheis kani tatouaz
den m’ endiaferei an kruveis asous sto maniki
ki an eheis matia tourkouaz

afou den eheis… afou den eheis…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

den m’ endiaferei an sto poto kapnizeis pouro
den m’ endiaferei an eisai gonos eugenon
ki an einai Armani to kostoumi sou to skouro
kai heis kai mplok epitagon

den m’ endiaferei an prokaleis stis alles rigos
den m’ endiaferei an se gnorizoun opou pas
den mpa na eisai o pro8upourgos o idios
ek mpa na eisai ki o Shoinas

afou den eheis… afou den eheis…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

den m’ endiaferei an eheis dunami megali
ki askeis epiroi se kuvernitikous
den m’ endiaferei an ka8e vradu pas kai m’ alli
parea me duo kollitous

den m’ endiaferei an eheis onoma sti piatsa
kai dunates tis Sofokleous metohes
den m’ endiaferei an eheis gumnasmena mpratsa
kai karta Amerikan Ekspres

giati sou leipei auto
pou psahno ego na vro
ma den to hei omos kaneis sas
kai ho vare8ei mazi sas
ol’ oi antres idia fatsa
tazet’ ouranous me ta astra

ma kaneis den ehei auto
pou suneheia anazito

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati… to kati… to kati…

auto to kati… to kati… to kati…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo
oh oh oh…. oh oh oh….

auto to kati pou 8elo
pou 8a me kanei san treli na se 8elo…

auto to kati… to kati… to kati…
to kati… to kati… to kati…
to kati… to kati… to kati…
to kati…

hhe…



__________________________________________________ _____


That Something
I'm not impressed by your expensive watch
I'm not impressed if you have lots of money
nor if you make your conquests into a string of worry beads
and you have two moblie phones

I'm not impressed if you are an ace in bed
I'm not impressed if you never tire at all
I'm not impressed if you have a Mercedes limousine
or a sporty equiped BMW


I'm not impressed if you workout your chest
I'm not impressed me if you are in great demand
and if surrounding your name there is a myth
you only think of your stature

mm....

I'm not impressed if you wear an earring
I'm not impressed if you have tattoos
I'm not impressed if you are hiding aces up your sleeve
and if you have turquoise eyes

because you dont have... because you dont have...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

I'm not impressed if you drink and smoke a cigar
I'm not impressed if you are polite person
and if your dark brown suit is Armani
and if you have a block of cheques

I'm not impressed if you make the other girls shiver
I'm not impressed if they recognise you wherever you go
nor if it is that you are the primeminister the very same
or if you might be (Dionisis) Shoinas

because you dont have... because you dont have...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

I'm not impressed if you have lots of stength
and if you have influence with the governors
I'm not impressed if every night you go with a different girl
and company of two mates

I'm not impressed if an name in the city center
and have strong wise investments
I'm not impressed if you have toned arm muscles
and an American Express card

Since something is missing from you
that I want to find
but you dont have it at all
and I am tired with you
All the men the same facade
pulling stars from the sky

but noone has it
that which I repeatedly ask for

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something, that something, that something,

that something, that something, that something,

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you
oh oh oh... oh oh oh...

that something that I want
that will make me mad and want you

that something, that something, that something,
that something, that something, that something,
that something, that something, that something,
that something,

hhe....

[Thalassa]

One day later Santa Claus had still a lot of gifts for me in his basket...
Many thanks to all of you and especially to Amethystos for his very detailed explanation of "zeibekiko".
It's a real pleasure to meet such benevolent souls in the forum!