Ekei sto Noto - Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Babis Stokas

Ekei sto Noto – Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Babis Stokas

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 in Greek Songs

Lavrentis Mahairitsas & Babis Stokas sing Ekei sto Noto, a Greek song which in English means “There, in the South”.

“Ekei sto Noto” is a song about love and remembrance with a simple, typical question of the memory keeper – “Which city, which country, which sea travels you now?” It doesn’t hurt that that love was maybe a night long, a month maybe, or who knows what moment of life! When it happened, it was real, it was honest and long awaited – “like an empty seat I travelled for years looking for the appropriate body”.

What emptiness it is when sounds of death and love are the only noise we recognize, when a journey itself is nothing but waiting for something that loses it name and meaning because of such an extended expectation? When there is no compassion and when en empty pack of cigarettes becomes a lucky strike? And then, that almost burned out desire, treated by “the smoke with a kiss”, turned the world upside down?

“I was falling like a coin in your black depth” says it all.

Music: Lavrentis Mahairitsas
Lyrics: Isaac Sousis
Performed by: Lavrentis Mahairitsas and Babis Stoka

Ekei sto Noto – English Lyrics

There in the South
where death creaks and love makes noise
like an empty seat I have travelled for years
looking for the appropriate body

There in the lights
night was finding its first signs
I had run out of cigarettes and compassion
and you treated me smoke with a kiss

Which city, which country
which sea travels you now
you remain silent, you remember
and, inebriated, you smile in your sleep
Which city, which country
which sea travels you now

There in the South
there I won the lottery of love
shrouded like a lizard in its’ shadow
I was falling like a coin in your black depth

Pale candles
your poverty would light and feed them with a jealousy
but your moans spelled I love you
like a sick baby in its cradle

Which city, which country
which sea travels you now
you remain silent, you remember
and, inebriated, you smile in your sleep
Which city, which country
which sea travels you now

Ekei sto noto – Greek Lyrics

Εκεί στο Νότο – Λαυρέντης Μαχαιρίτσας, Μπάμπης Στόκας – Ελληνικοί Στίχοι

Εκεί στο Νότο
που τρίζει ο θάνατος κι η αγάπη κάνει κρότο
σαν άδειο κάθισμα ταξίδεψα για χρόνια
ψάχνοντας να βρω το κατάλληλο κορμί

Εκεί στα φώτα
εύρισκε η νύχτα τα σημάδια της τα πρώτα
είχα ξεμείνει από τσιγάρα και συμπόνια
και συ με κέρασες καπνό μ’ ένα φιλί

Ποια πόλη, ποια χώρα
ποια θάλασσα σε ταξιδεύει τώρα
σωπαίνεις, θυμάσαι
και μεθυσμένη μες τον ύπνο σου γελάς
Ποια πόλη, ποια χώρα
ποια θάλασσα σε ταξιδεύει τώρα

Εκεί στο Νότο
εκεί μου κλήρωσε ο έρωτας στο Λόττο
κουλουριασμένος σαν τη σαύρα στη σκιά του
σαν νόμισμα έπεφτα στο μαύρο σου βυθό

Χλωμά καντήλια
άναβε η φτώχεια σου τα τάιζε με ζήλεια
μα συλλαβίζαν σ’ αγαπώ τα βογγητά σου
σαν ένα άρρωστο στην κούνια του μωρό