Arete Ketime & Paschalis Tonios / Αρετή Κετιμέ & Πασχάλης Τόνιος

Tonight again, everything feels wrong
and I take up my difficulties…
but your kisses.. tell fairytales
and with their magic I change the world..
Like a little taxim* from Smyrna
your love erases** pain..

My life is damage and madness
I told you and lit a cigarette
but your glance.. honey and cinnamon
that I do not disappear.. once again a lighthouse found me.
Like a little taxim from Smyrna
your love erases pain..

I cannot suffer myself anymore
and he*** looks at me as if I am a stranger..
with you only.. I become my own being
and my soul fits inside my body..
Like a little taxim from Smyrna
your love erases pain..
Like a little taxim from Smyrna
your love erases pain..

And if the world is deep winter
you are all one fire..

Like a little taxim from Smyrna
your love erases pain..
Like a little taxim from Smyrna
your love erases pain..

(translation: Eva Johanos
*ταξιμάκι ~ a beautiful melodic improvisation usually used to introduce a song
**σβήνω means to erase, to extinguish, to cause to disappear
***the singer speaks of the self as another consciousness)