Thalasses – Dimitris Mitropanos
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 in Greek Songs
Dimitris Mitropanos sings Thalasses, a much appreciated Greek love song, which means in English “Oceans” or “Seas”.
“Oceans” is a typical Greek love song given its melody and rhythm, its lyrics and the meaning behind the lyrics. A lost love, a never-ending search for lost summer and beloved eyes, one life turned into memories and endless nights of loneliness and memories. “Tonight I will drink a glass of death to get drunk, tell me how can I live alone in the summers”, is an echo that runs throughout this song and throughout the veins of everyone and anyone who ever embarked to go “on an abandoned route” to looked for the lost one.
Where did that summer go, why storms and peaceful pillows were taken for granted, why not all words were said? How many questions to ponder, and how much more, new and anew night after night, memory after memory?! Why we need to lose to be able to understand how much we need “oceans, in your eyes oceans…”?
“Oceans, in your eyes oceans” is as reflective as sadness and grief could be: deep, unlimited, unspoken…
Lyrics: Sarantis Alivizatos
Music: Marios Tokas
Performed by: Dimitris Mitropanos
Thalasses– English Lyrics
Oceans, in your eyes oceans
and you were taking me to trips, like a boat, and you were saying
I will love you by the summers
with storms and with the rain,
with my two arms as your pillow
you will be dreaming whatever you want
Tonight I will drink a glass of death to get drunk
Tell me how can I live alone
in the summers
Tonight I will drink a glass of death to get drunk
I will go on an abandoned route,
I will go to look for you.
Oceans, in your eyes oceans,
and you were taking me to trips, like a boat, and you were saying
I will love you – don’t you get sad -
like a sin and like a feast.
Learn to read in my eyes
whatever I have not told you in words
Thalasses – Greek Lyrics
Θάλασσες – Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος – Ελληνικοί Στίχοι
Θάλασσες, μέσα στα μάτια σου θάλασσες
και με ταξίδευες, σαν το καράβι κι έλεγες:
Θα σ’ αγαπώ με τα καλοκαίρια
με τρικυμίες και με βροχές
με μαξιλάρι τα δυο μου χέρια
θα ονειρεύεσαι ό,τι θες
Ένα ποτήρι θάνατο θα πιω, απόψε να μεθύσω
Τα καλοκαίρια πες μου πώς μπορώ
μονάχος μου να ζήσω
Ένα ποτήρι θάνατο θα πιω απόψε να μεθύσω
σε μονοπάτι αδιάβατο θα βγω,
θα βγω να σε ζητήσω
Θάλασσες, μέσα στα μάτια σου θάλασσες
και με ταξίδευες, σαν το καράβι κι έλεγες:
Θα σ’ αγαπώ, μη μου συννεφιάζεις
σαν αμαρτία και σαν γιορτή
Μάθε στα μάτια μου να διαβάζεις
όσα με λόγια δε σου ‘χω πει
