Thomas Korovinis / Θωμάς Κοροβίνης

Night, you who take me on your wings
and take me on travels to your dreams,
one more lie give to me,
my hell and paradise.

Night, in your fire you wrap me,
in your rough caresses you choke me,
you dizzy me with your beauty,
you break me with your heartlessness;
you dizzy me with your beauty,
you break me with your heartlessness.

Night, on your doorstep I beat my breast
I sell myself to your agents of the black market,
cops guard your secrets,
serpents poison your kisses.

Night with your black garments, my companion,
in your wine you dye my heart;
with your bastard hashish
you have sickened my mind ~
with your bastard hashish
you have sickened my mind.

Night, you have the executioner as your brother
and the dragon for your lover;
you strangle the orphaned heartbreaks
in your small blind alleyways.

Night, my love, my comfort,
don’t make my heart any blacker;
one more lie give to me,
my hell and paradise ~
one more lie give to me,
my hell and paradise.

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Νύχτα, αγάπη μου, παρηγοριά μου,
μη μαυρίζεις άλλο την καρδιά μου,
ένα ψέμα ακόμα χάρισέ μου,
κόλασή μου και παράδεισέ μου,
ένα ψέμα ακόμα χάρισέ μου,
κόλασή μου και παράδεισέ μου.

You have security
and we, opportunity
you, money makes you
and us, history
You- official uniform
and we, without a a harbor
because of us you exist
we create a fine blend.

You beat us
you took our houses
you gave us no mercy
You beat us
you created barriers
but you didn’t defeat us.

They think you are the winners
and we the losers
you the strong players
and we the trash.
You have the prisons
and pull strings
we have the sky
the muses and the nails.

You beat us
you created barriers
but you didn’t break us
You beat us
and you spit on us
but you didn’t extinguish us.

You with the constitutions
and we children of the road
we, chained to the blues
and you, the police.
You went to the great palaces
and we to the little holes in the wall
but we have a spark in our soul
we burn your little houses.

You beat us
and your roasted us over the charcoal
but you didn’t convince us
You beat us
and you crushed us underfoot
but you didn’t defeat us.

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Μας κερδισατε
και μας ψησατε
αλλα δεν μας πεισατε
Μας κερδισατε
μας πατησατε
μα δεν μας νικησατε(δις)