Gerasimos Andreatos / Γεράσιμος Ανδρεάτος

Again, this evening, too
and this night as well I cannot sleep
I search in the darkness
to find my lost dreams

Again in the thought of the crazy girl
the morning star found me without having slept
thinking of her eyes
her sly caresses
which caused me to be a sad young man

I drink and I give again
another curse to the love that seeks
to leave me alone, with only pain
each evening for company

Again in the thought of the crazy girl
the morning star found me without having slept
thinking of her eyes
her sly caresses
which caused me to be a sad young man

Cheers to the young man
who loves the one who will give ~ to save him ~
caresses on cold evenings
and a little corner where the poor man can get warm

Again in the thought of the crazy girl
the morning star found me without having slept
thinking of her eyes
her sly caresses
which caused me to be a sad young man

(Translation: Eva Johanos)

Ten years at Bakakou’s I’ve been waiting for you to come
all of Greece has passed by and you have yet to appear
Ten years at Bakakou’s I’ve been waiting for you to come

For ten years here I spend my nights with the same prayer
that the staircases bring you before the destruction**
I found the old signs and scars, the old carved gashes
the soldiers papers, the wounds of my house
I found the old signs and scars, the old carved gashes

(Translation: Eva Johanos
*Bakakou’s ~ a well-known pharmacy at the center of Athens, in Omonoia Square, which for more than 75 years after its opening in 1917 was a well-known meeting place and landmark;
**destruction of the world, or of a personal nature; the staircases referring to the exits of the one of the largest underground train stations)

Let’s play…
I shall give you my queen
She used to be my beloved
I have no beloved anymore.

I shall give you my rooks
I don’t shoot my friends anymore
They have died long
before me

Everything, everything, even my knights I shall give you
Everything, everything, even my knights I shall give you
Only this crazy* of mine I shall keep
who only steps to a single colour

striding from one end to the other
laughing to your so many armours
entering into your lines suddenly
disordering the solid dispositions

Let’s play…

This king was never mine
And then, what do I need all these soldiers**
They go forward looking down without even dreams

Everything, everything, even my knights I shall give you
Everything, everything, even my knights I shall give you
Only this crazy* of mine I shall keep
who only steps to a single colour

striding from one end to the other
laughing to your so many armours
entering into your lines suddenly
disordering the solid dispositions

Let’s play…
This game doesn’t have an end either.

*”crazy” refers to the bishop
** “soldiers” refers to the pawns

01. In the thought of the madwoman 00:00
02. Eyes don’t change their color 03:14
03. The cliff 06:27
04. Bitter kiss 09:25
05. Sad child 12:57
06. Ten years at the Bakakou 15:37
07. My tired road18:43
08. The women of the past 22:03
09. Two foreign people 25:53
10. There where the wind dies out 28:58

Lyrics
1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, Vangelis Korakakis
2, Michalis Ganas
3, Lukas Strogylos
6, 8, Thodoris Gonis

Music:
1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, Vangelis Korakakis
2, Dimitris Papadimitriou
3, Manos Hatzidakis
6, 8, Christos Nikolopoulos