Vassilis Dimitriou / Βασίλης Δημητρίου

How much, how much,
how much I loved you
how much I loved you
never will you learn
from my life, from my life,
from my life you passed
and went far away and were lost
like the passing
of birds which don’t return

How much I loved you,
never will you learn

And if you don’t wait to see me,
and if you don’t wait to see me
and I how will you come again,
you of my first dream
the sweetest breath

For eternity I will sing it,
for eternity I will sing it
and you will not learn it,
that the moments you gave to me
are worth a whole life

How much I loved you,
never will you learn

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Πόσο πολύ σ’ αγάπησα,
ποτέ δε θα το μάθεις

There are hearts which we learned like open letters
There are tables at which no one will sit again
A precious music that they wrote for you
So many thousands of fingers for the last time

What sea, what sea will be big enough
to hold the sorrow that the soul has gathered?

How many extinguished glances look back when you look
How many gagged mouths speak when you speak
It was the energy of the sun, the rose that is maturing
Closed window shutters the breasts you love

(translation: Eva Johanos)