Rosa - Dimitris Mitropanos

Rosa – Dimitris Mitropanos

Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 in Greek Songs

Dimitris Mitropanos sings Rosa, a Greek song composed by Thanos Mikroutsikos, written by Alkis Alkaios. It is one of the most popular Greek songs sung by Dimitris Mitropanos, marked by his strong and intense voice.

Rosa is a zeibekiko song; is it a love song? Many say yes, but the truth is that it is a song about loss and love, about life in general. It is a political song in its wider notion, as it blends the personal life with the social life of a man, wondering in his life… “I no longer want to learn what we is it we look for..” Is it that sometimes we are all tired of constantly looking for answers, for explanations? Maybe that is how it is..

Dimitris Mitropanos joined forces with Alkaios and Mikroutsikos, creating one of the most powerful Greek songs – along with Ladadika, some of his greatest songs from the same album, released in mid 90s.

Lyrics: Alkis Alkaios
Music: Thanos Mikroutsikos
Performed by: Dimitris Mitropanos

Rosa – Dimitris Mitropanos – English Lyrics

Your lips dry and thirsty
searching for water on the asphalt
the wheeled machines are running past me
and you are telling me that the cloudburst awaits us
and drawing me into a damp cabaret

We are walking down the same street together
but our dungeons are separate
we circle a magic city
I no longer want to learn what it is we look for
it’s enough if you give me just two kisses

you play me at roulette and lose me
in a nightmare fairy tale
now my voice is the voice of an insect
my life an uprooted plant
you cut me off and toss me into the void

How need turns into history
how history turns into silence
what are you looking at me for, Rosa, all numb
forgive me for not understanding you
what is the computers say, and the numbers?

My beloved, made of coal and sulphur,
how can time have altered you so?
the wheeled machines are running over us
and I in the fog and in the rain
am sleeping by your side, fasting

How need turns into history
how history turns into silence
what are you looking at me for, Rosa, all numb
forgive me for not understanding you
what do the computers say, and the numbers?

Rosa – Dimitris Mitropanos – Lyrics in Greeklish

Ta heili mou ksera kai dipsasmena
girevoune stin asfalto nero
pernane dipla mou ta trohofora
kai si mou les mas perimenei i bora
kai me travas se kabare igro

Vadizoume mazi ston idio dromo
ma ta kelia mas einai horista
se politeia magiki girname
de thelo pia na matho ti zitame
ftanei na mou hariseis dio filia

Me paizeis sti rouleta kai me haneis
se ena paramithi efialtiko
foni entomou tora ein’ i foni mou
fito anarrihomeno i zoi mou
me koveis kai me rihneis sto keno

Pos i anagi ginetai istoria
pos i istoria ginetai siopi
ti me koitazeis Roza moudiasmeno
sighora me pou den katalavaino
ti lene ta computers ki oi arithmoi

Agapi mou apo karvouno kai theiafi
pos s’ ehei allaksei etsi o kairos
pernane pano mas ta trohofora
kai go mes’ stin omihli kai ti bora
koimamai sto plevro sou nistikos

Pos i anagi ginetai istoria
pos i istoria ginetai siopi
ti me koitazeis Roza moudiasmeno
sighora me pou den katalavaino
ti lene ta computers ki oi arithmoi

Ρόζα – Δημητρης Μητροπάνος – Ελληνικοί Στίχοι

Τα χείλη μου ξερά και διψασμένα
γυρεύουνε στην άσφαλτο νερό
περνάνε δίπλα μου τα τροχοφόρα
και συ μου λες μας περιμένει η μπόρα
και με τραβάς σε καμπαρέ υγρό

Βαδίζουμε μαζί στον ίδιο δρόμο
μα τα κελιά μας είναι χωριστά
σε πολιτεία μαγική γυρνάμε
δε θέλω πια να μάθω τι ζητάμε
φτάνει να μου χαρίσεις δυο φιλιά

Με παίζεις στη ρουλέτα και με χάνεις
σε ένα παραμύθι εφιαλτικό
φωνή εντόμου τώρα ειν’ η φωνή μου
φυτό αναρριχώμενο η ζωή μου
με κόβεις και με ρίχνεις στο κενό

Πώς η ανάγκη γίνεται ιστορία
πώς η ιστορία γίνεται σιωπή
τι με κοιτάζεις Ρόζα μουδιασμένο
συγχώρα με που δεν καταλαβαίνω
τι λένε τα κομπιούτερς κι οι αριθμοί

Αγάπη μου από κάρβουνο και θειάφι
πώς σ’ έχει αλλάξει έτσι ο καιρός
περνάνε πάνω μας τα τροχοφόρα
και γω μέσ’ στην ομίχλη και τη μπόρα
κοιμάμαι στο πλευρό σου νηστικός

Tags: Mikroutsikos, Mitropanos