Melina Kana, duets / Μελίνα Κανά, ντουέτα

Let your body fall
into the shed
where there are snakes, grape syrup
and a deep echo

Dancing body
and you have a guide
in your cells
the cosmic beat
with your ivory waist
carve that I may enjoy you

Like the spear of wheat which bends down
and springs back again
come and leave us again
now on the ground, now up high

Dancing body
and you have a guide
in your cells
the cosmic beat
with your ivory waist
carve that I may enjoy you

Fingers like little oil lamps
beat their wings around us
in the corners and on the paving stones
love all of us

Dancing body
and you have a guide
in your cells
the cosmic beat
with your ivory waist
carve that I may enjoy you

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Σώμα που χορεύεις
κι έχεις οδηγό
μες τα κύτταρά σου
τον κοσμικό παλμό
με τη φιλντισένια μέση
χάραξε να σε χαρώ

Πάνω στα ματόκλαδά σου ζει
στυλίτης ξεχασμένος
Πάνω στα ματόκλαδα
εσύ είσαι ανεβασμένος
Παίζεις λαούτο με φτερό
και εγώ τα μάτια κλείνω
Γλιστράς από τα βλέφαρα
και στην καρδιά σε αφήνω
Πάνω στα ματόκλαδά σου ζει
στυλίτης ξεχασμένος..

Tonight the song will be like a prayer
it will be olive grove in a forgotten land
Tonight the song will be arms
for you to fit in, too, though you’re far away

Tonight nobody can cheat the moon
it caresses basil with the one hand
and I who am sleepless, up all night
don’t know if I will die or if I will be born again.

Tonight my heart will be an old
bicycle that wants to ride out in the sky
reach Massimo Troizi and tell him
that life can change overnight.

Tonight the song will be arms
for you to fit in, too, though you’re far away.

Απόψε το τραγούδι θα γίνει αγκαλιά
που θα χωράει κι εσένα κι ας είσαι μακριά.

A closed person
like an abandoned house
neither light, nor smoke,
not even a pane of glass in the skylight
my little brother
a closed person
like an abandoned house

He writes words on the water
in the wells he throws stones
at the mouth of God’s well
with ropes he pulls out fugitives
he pulls them out into the light
and after he leaves, bent over
to the mountains, to the black rocks.

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Like a monk without the robe,
like a little refugee without a pass
I was confusing the road and was delayed
because I was giving love in vain.

Close your eyes
so that I go away, I vanish.
For those eyes of yours
I will come back again.

For those eyes of yours
I die, I expire.
Close your eyes
so that I resurrect.

Like the dawn after the night,
like the kiss after a bitter moment
you came into my dark loneliness
to set fire to my dreams.

Close your eyes
so that I go away, I vanish.
For those eyes of yours
I will come back again.

For those eyes of yours
I die, I expire
Close your eyes
so that I resurrect.