Filaraki - Sofia Vossou

Filaraki – Sofia Vossou

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 in Greek Songs

Sofia Vossou sings Filaraki, a very popular Greek song which in English means “Little friend”.

Nights at the beach? Who didn’t have them? And somebody was playing guitar and some people were singing and you were singing along…”Filaraki” is that kind of a song that everybody remembers when remembers long nights at beaches, even if it was played by someone who was just learning to play those vicious six strings…Greeks simply adore this song, it enlightens their youth, it brings memories, it teases a smile…

However it’s not the happiest song ever. But youth doesn’t come all in a foil of happiness. First loves and first losses, first disappointments and first dilemmas, attempts to find a console in bars and endless smokes, sleepless nights…”I the corridors of my mind I seek for you”, because there is no other way out of the eternal loneliness, as it feels. It seems like the world is falling on us, nobody really loves us, and we are just scare, simply scare to “call you on the phone to tell you how lonely I am”. The only hideout we imagine is a little friend, filaraki,”to tell me that he really loves me (since you, too, have disappeared)”

Music: Sofia Vossou
Lyrics: Sofia Vossou
Performed by: Sofia Vossou
Other performances: Antonis Remos

Filaraki – English Lyrics

I am scared to call you on the phone to tell you
how lonely I am
in the corridors of my mind I seek for you
with great desire

I can’t find a way out nowhere
and tell me what to do
I have filled syffocatingly
the room with smoke, all the way up
and time laughs at me like a baby

where can I turn my body
when I return from the bars
and the sleepless nights

where can I find a little friend
to tell me that he really loves me
since you, too, have disappeared

The night far from you seems to be stimulating
like a sin
but your figure escapes from a secret hideout
beats me violently

I cant find my way out….

Not even you have the solution that I am looking for
the solution that I ask for
blocked since years in your bevel gear
that I sing for days

I cant find my way out
when I return from the bars
and the sleepless nights

where can I find a little friend
to tell me that he really loves me
since you, too, have disappeared