Akis Savvidis / Άκης Σαββίδης

I don’t want wealth or money,
nor golden palaces
I want to see myself
in your two eyes…

… Only love me,
I want to see myself
in your two eyes…

Like a dark little lamp
my living with you,
you slowly take my life
but my thought is yours…

… For ever…
you slowly take my life
but my thought is yours…

I tell it to you without shame,
I am balanced on a tightrope,
but in the tempest of your love I will be lost…

For you I can sing,
and fight for years,
until Charon [Death] will find me
on the marble threshing-floors…

… I will have you in my heart,
until Charon [Death] will find me
on the marble threshing-floors…

… Cross-stitching,
on an old piece of silk
which I have kept for years…

And afterwards my song
Wants to re-echo for centuries
high on the untrodden mountains
which are covered by snows…

whispering of the north,
high on the untrodden mountains
which are covered by snows…

I tell it to you without shame,
I am balanced on a tightrope,
but in the tempest of your love I will be lost…

(translation: Eva Johanos)

There was a flower
in the crack of the rock;
when the wind blew
it would make the earth drunk with its perfume…

all of the earth’s wild
fairies and magical folk
cam from the skies
and stood near…

and it lived like that, alone
that little flower
to give color to the mountain
on a secret path…

There was a song
with magical voices,
at night they called me
o the courtyards for feasts…

like clean water
which came from the source
again the little song
they sang from the beginning…

there passed years and celebrations
and other seasons came…
the courtyards filled with ash
but yesterday did not fade…

and it remained without a tune
that little song,
to throw passions into the void,
it does not expect a return…

(translation: Eva Johanos)

You loved me once
but will deny me thrice…
and this will be the difference,
perfection you will not find…

my days are unending
at night I miss you
your scent in the sheets
as if it was yesterday…

You lower your gaze
you hide in your shadow
your touch is frozen
but I still seek it…

And still, I love you, as no one…

I’ve grown bored with waiting
and I’m withdrawing
in my pocket I hide the card
on which is written “I love you”

And if I leave I will always remember
the beautiful moments
I don’t know now if I am sorry
that you don’t want me anymore

Love me… I can’t stand it anymore, this separation…
Love me… I can’t stand it anymore, talking about you
I still love you, as no one…

(translation: Eva Johanos)

For quite a while we all live
like rats in the city
going out in fear
and the cats outside keeping watch…

They scatter a few crumbs for us,
and tell us that they love us…
how they care about our well-being,
and the future of our children…

And maybe they think
that we are stupid
and maybe from so much food
they have become stupid themselves!!!!

NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER
NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER
NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER
NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER

We want our country free
and what has been stolen here and now
We want our own life.
and we will not sell our dreams…

So tell it to your courtiers
your bravos and your buddies
hide yourself well behind them
because we’re coming, do you hear?

Don’t hope that any of us
will take pity on you…
If you pay the bill
maybe you get off very cheap…

NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER
Ask your belly to tell you…
Ask your fat belly and it will tell you,
and it will tell you, and it will tell you,
NO WE DIDN’T EAT IT TOGETHER

(translation: Eva Johanos)

I am not holding on to you, I close my eyes
so as not to see
that last “adios”

One favor only I ask of you
dance the last dance with me
hold my hands tightly
give me a warm embrace
and after leave in the mist like a shadow….

I will be searching for your smile
I will wait
to see it again one morning….

Don’t cry my heart, it is not your fault
if life plays games
on people

And only this little is enough for me and I thank you…
I seek nothing more from my life…
Be well, there where you go
may you have someone to love you also
The wish I give you is that you always smile…

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Κι αυτο το λιγο μου αρκει κι ευχαριστω…
Τιποτε αλλο απ τη ζωη μου δεν ζητω…
Νασαι καλα εκει που πας
ναχεις και καποιον ν’ αγαπας
Ευχη σου δινω παντα να χαμογελας….

I know that maybe it is a mistake.
However I want it. . .
a thousand no’s it will tell me, the mind
but the soul, it will turn back there again,
to you. . .

Everything which this will result in for us,
I know this as well. . .
in dark shop windows, in squares
which are empty, on the little bench some snow
frozen. . .

Υou disappeared into a secret garden
where can I seek now to find you
alone once again, I see before me
gray clouds in my heart. . .

You set like the sun on the mountain,
it passed, that morning also. .
the afternoon small, fog, smoke
the horizon I see is dark. . .

At a mute telephone
I wait for you. . .
I watch but you are late, the hours pass
in silence, in my chest I have a piece of charcoal
burning. . .

Υou disappeared into a secret garden
where can I seek now to find you
alone once again, I see before me
gray clouds in my heart. . .

You set like the sun on the mountain,
it passed, that morning also. .
the afternoon small, fog, smoke
the horizon I see is dark. . .

(translation: Eva Johanos)

I ‘m here for a glance
How long does a glance last?
How long does a drop roll on a leaf?
I ‘m here for an evening
for a undisciplined heart
as long as the earth brings circles
to the sun

I am in the country of silence
Don’t speak to me, you won’t be heard
I am your burning breath and the heartbeat
I ‘m here whatever you say
I have the voice of a mute soul
I am the something small, very small
that you miss

I ‘m a grain of sand
footprint of the beach
I ‘m foam that refreshes the sand
I m here, seeking you
Oh my moon, in this world
I ‘m a white cloud
and you are above…

Είμαι ένας κόκκος αμμουδιάς
χνάρι της ακροθαλασσιάς
είμαι αφρός που δροσίζει την άμμο
Είμαι εδώ, σ αναζητώ
φεγγάρι μου στον κόσμο αυτό
είμαι άσπρο σύννεφο
κι εσύ είσαι πιο πάνω