Michalis Nikoloudis / Μιχάλης Νικολούδης

Tonight I want to get drunk
To drink the most bitter wine…
To leave behind me the world
that we left together…

Bitter wine, made of grapes
and of your own sound of speech
I want it to have infernal lips
to have all your kisses…

To have a strange song
To have Heaven and earth
To have a little fluff from your body
and my rage….

To leave some black sediment,
to leave pain and anger
Very bitter, as the mistakes
and as much as my love for you…

Tonight I want to get drunk
and not to think about the causes
To sleep, and then to wake up
while around me there’ s a feast…

Since you speak of generations and want to define them
listen to the opinion of a voice which you might know

The majority, the best ones
you thought you saw them finishing
and you are leaving for other skies.
For me you are of those,
those low-flying kites,
which with one storm dissolve…

With love I told you this a long time ago, what are you going and taking on
the ephemeral you are cultivating, the ephemeral you will reap.

(translation: Eva Johanos)

An old song that became sacred
through many tears
on its back it loaded
the sorrow of the world
And if you ask, it will tell you
I no longer have a country
no homeland is big enough
for all of heaven

I was baptized in your frustration
in your bitterness and spite
and higher I ascend
I am your first milk
the smell of your mother
that’s why I revive you

An old song that became sacred
from so much love
it became the clothing of the poor man
of the only companion
And if you ask it will tell you
I do not know my years
Who knows when it was broken
for the first time, the heart

I was baptized in your frustration
in your bitterness and spite
and higher I ascend
I am your first milk
the smell of your mother
that’s why I revive you

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Come take me
let me find myself in the depths of your sea
to be loved, to be ransomed
Come take me
in your blue waters
give wings to the dreams

Come take me
to other distant journeys
to the violets of the afternoon
Come take me
give me blood and voice
on a sandy waterside

Come take me
where the body bends
where the body laughs
Come take me
and be my verse from heaven
that the rhythm dances and
the sacred psalmist sounds.

A tempest at night took you from me
and I am like the boat with tattered sails

Alone, naked, walking on sharp stones
ach, my ancient life, they played dice for her.

In flames your image pierces me like a bullet
which in a night disappeared, and wounded the air

Tears of love, rivers which I still remember
I will never find again in the same body

(translation: Eva Johanos)

I’m gone, flying like a cloud
along with Sun God my friend
Drunk by the wind’s nectar*
Embracing earth and sky

I’m not scared, even without wings
The blue sky holds me in its arms
I sleep on high mountains
I sent my kisses over to the Aegean Sea

In search of freedom through the winds
I’m not a mortal anymore
I’m lifting way up high, I feel the love inside
I’m a golden, bodiless eagle

I’m not scared, even without wings
The blue sky holds me in its arms
I sleep on high mountains
I sent my kisses over to the Aegean Sea

I’m gone, flying like a cloud
along with Sun God my friend
Drunk by the wind’s nectar
Embracing earth and sky

Σαν το σύννεφο φεύγω πετάω
έχω φίλο τον Ήλιο-Θεό
με του αγέρα το νέκταρ μεθάω
αγκαλιάζω και γη κι ουρανό.