tagged: Dionyssis Savvopoulos, Greek music, me aeroplana kai vaporia, sotiria bellou, With airplanes and Ships, με αεροπλάνα και βαπόρια

“Get up, my Soul” Savvopoulos -Bellou (Greek Music Video)

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Music

In fact, I am fed up to write about how desperate the Greek people are. We need a sign of Hope, but it’s not there. We need inspiration. And we might get it from the past.

There is this song by Dionyssis Savvopoulos, who composed the music and wrote the inspiring lyrics in 1972, when Greece was suffering from the Junta.  Its title is: Me airplana and Vaporia (With Airplanes and Ships”. A timeless song that every time I listen to it I feel my soul is raising to a higher thus “fighting” level. Ι added a lyrics English translation at the end.

“Με αεροπλάνα και βαπόρια” performed by Sotiria Bellou & Dionyssis Savvopoulos.

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Agony for electrocution. Dead-alive in the Cell. Rock scenes.
Photograph with Mpellou.

With airplanes and ships
and with the old friends
we are wondering in the darkness
and yet you cannot hear us.

You cannot hear us singing,
with electric voices,
in the underground passages
until our orbits meet
your basic principles.

My father, Batis, (untouchable mother, figure made of soil and sky)
came from Smyrni in ’22 (I will be lost from in front of your eyes)
and he lived for fifty years (in the world)
into a hidden basement (like a refugee, into a hidden basement)

In that waythis world, those who love (if they love)
are eating dirty bread (are eating dirty bread)
(those who remain faithful in your words)
and their desires follow (and their desires follow an underground route)
an underground route

Yesterday night I saw a friend
wondering like an elf
onto the motorbike
and dogs were running after him.

Get up, my soul, turn the power on,
set your clothes on fire (like Marcus)
set the instruments on fire (set the instruments on fire)
like a black spirit will blow up (to heal the would, like a black spirit will blow up)
our strong voice (our strong voice)