Collection of internet photographs from the Sporades islands with music by Argyris Bakirtzis and the Winter Swimmers (English subtitles and revised translation below)
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Lyrics & music by Argyris Bakirtzis
Performed by Argyris Bakirtzis and the Winter Swimmers
In Pagasitikos (gulf), we were lost in the evening
In Pagasitikos, in streets, in quarries
In Pagasitikos, in the day, dynamites
In Pagasitikos, in the evening, hermits
In Pagasitikos, the drawings, flowers
In Pagasitikos, flowers of the sea
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When summer comes
Both of us will go to other places
When summer comes
But I will no longer have the hand
When summer comes
With others, you will be in other places
In seas and seashores
To others, you will give your caresses
And I will be looking at the stars
And, character, I will not change
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By a remoted church with high arches
five or six dervishes stopped an evening
They looked with wonder at the painted saints
At the Virgin and the Christ, painted on the dome
They asked the Archangel about this life
About good, about evil, about poverty and the riches
But, in their deep trance, they didn't see that the saints
Were only painted, and the desert, great
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Being refugee is a sorrow, and fits them all
the pains and the sufferings, the most bitter poisons
The yearn of love, even that, can heal
but the sorrow of the refugee, only with me, will die
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Technocrats, terrorists
With industries and governments
With extensions and breaths
Your lifes are counted
Not in years, nor in months
Nor in days, nor in hours
Only a in a little moment
Like for a short lightning
And now the wolves will become sheep
As would say the old chief
Just as the pigs turned into weaklings
In Circe's ancient time
And the celebration of chaos,
the great fiest, begins
The endless drunkenness
With piano barrels and fiddles
Now, my friend, we shall revel as brothers
Without fancy shirts or guilt
And the joy will drive us crazy
Playing bouzouki and saz together
9 май 2017
