Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - C

Words of Hellenic (Greek) origin in popular, successful or favorite international songs.

C


cancer (καρκίνος)

Leave In Silence - DEPECHE MODE (LP A Broken Frame, 1982)
Lyrics: I would stop this thing from spreading like a cancer

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. 1964)
Lyrics: silence like a cancer grows



catacomb (κατακόμβη)

Breathless - DAN WILSON (LP Free Life, 2007)

Lyrics: Your voice is echoing again Through catacombs inside my mind

catalogue (κατάλογος)

The Mercy Seat - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Tender Prey, 1988)
Lyrics: interpret signs & catalogue



catapult (καταπέλτης)

There’s Always Something There To Remind Me - THE HOUSEMARTINS (single, 1988)
Lyrics: Making bombs in chemistry and catapults in craft, He (the teacher) thought I must be plotting the downfall of his class



catastrophe (καταστροφή)

Blind - TALKING HEADS (LP Naked, 1988)   
Lyrics: claimed to avert a catastrophe

Red Alert - BASEMENT JAXX (single, 1999)
Lyrics: Red Alert! It's a catastrophe

Take The Long Way Home - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: does it feel that your life has become a catastrophe



cathedral (καθεδρικός)

Cathedral Song - TANITA TIKARAM (LP Ancient Heart, 1988)
Lyrics: I saw you from the Cathedral, you were watching me

Electric Guitars - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics: grander than Castles, Cathedrals or stars

Hotel Yorba - WHITE STRIPES (LP White Blood Cells, 2001)
Lyrics: let's get narried in a big Cathedral by a priest

Le Geant De Papier - JEAN-JACQUES LAFON (single, 1985)
Lyrics: de vous construire des tours, des cathedrales

Tom's Diner - SUZANNE VEGA (LP Solitude Standing, 1987)
Tom's Diner - DNA feat. SUZANNE VEGA (single, 1990)
Lyrics: as I'm listening to the bells of the Cathedral

When All’s Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (LP Love Not Money, 1985)
Lyrics: my love is like Cathedral bells

Winchester Cathedral - THE NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND (single, 1966)
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catholic (καθολικός)

Good Morning Britain - AZTEC CAMERA feat. MICK JONES (LP Stray, 1990)
Lyrics: and a corporal sneers at a catholic boy

Only The Good Die Young - BILLY JOEL (LP The Stranger, 1977)
Lyrics: you catholic girls start much too late



cemetery (κοιμητήριο)

Pet Sematary - RAMONES (single, 1989)
Lyrics: I don't wanna be buried in a Pet Sematary

My Name Is - EMINEM (The Slim Shady LP, 1999)
Lyrics: I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive

OtherSide - RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS (LP Californication, 2000)
Lyrics: a cemetery where I marry the sea



center, centre (κέντρο)

E=mc2 - BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (LP This Is Big Audio Dynamite, 1985)
Lyrics: center of the universe

Love Is The 7th Wave - STING (LP The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)
Lyrics: at the center of the fury




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chaos

Special K - PLACEBO
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20 Seconds To Comply - SILVER BULLET
Lyrics:

When Tomorrow Comes - EURYTHMICS
Lyrics: untroubled by the chaos of our lives



chord

Long White Car - HIPSWAY

Lyrics: 

Sultans of swing-DIRE STRAITS
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chorus

Evangeline-ICICLE WORKS 
Lyrics: the forest’s evening chorus

Fairytale of New York-THE POGUES 
Lyrics: the boys of the NYPD choir

The sound of musik-FALCO
Lyrics: hear the church chor sing



Christian

Loving the alien-DAVID BOWIE
Lyrics: Christians & the unbelievers

Walking in Memphis-MARC KOHN 
Lyrics: are you a christian



chrome

Born to run-BRUCE 
Lyrics: chrome wheeled fuel injected

World shut your mouth-JULIAN COPE
Lyrics: seems to have it all chromed



cinema

Heartland-THE THE
Lyrics: past the Saturday morning cinema



circle

Why can’t I be you-THE CURE 
Lyrics: I‘ll run around in circles



circus

I’m still standing-ELTON JOHN 
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climate

Nice'n'sleazy - THE STRANGLERS
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clinical

The Logical song-SUPERTRAMP
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code

Burning heart-SURVIVOR   
Lyrics: in the warrior’s code there’s no surrender

Sex bomb-TOM JONES     
Lyrics: secret code

Word up-CAMEO     
Lyrics: is the code word



coma, comatose

Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS
Lyrics:

Motorcycle emptiness-MANIC STREET PREACHERS
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comedy, comical

Comedy - SHACK (1999)

Leave a tender moment alone-BILLY JOEL

Lyrics: I know the moment isn't right To tell the girl a comical line To keep the conversation light I guess I'm just frightened out of my mind

Now you’re gone-BLACK     
Lyrics: this was comedy

Padam padam-EDITH PIAF
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comet

The whole of the moon-WATERBOYS 
Lyrics: you came like a comet



cosmic

I owe you love-SIX BY SEVEN (2002) 
Lyrics: you are cosmic & I love you

Starman-DAVID BOWIE
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cosmopolitan

Perfect skin-L. COLE & THE C.
Lyrics: she’s sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan



crisis

Broken land-THE ADVENTURES
Lyrics: his own life’s crisis pales

Presidential suite-SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
Lyrics: another Cuban cigar crisis



critical

I don’t need no doctor-W.A.S.P. 
Lyrics: he put me on the critical list



criticize

Don’t bring me down-ANIMALS
Lyrics:

Goodbye-AIR SUPPLY 
Lyrics: I never criticize

Jordan the comeback-PREFAB SPROUT
Lyrics: you should be slow to criticize

School-SUPERTRAMP
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crystal

A view to a kill-DURAN DURAN
Lyrics: the first crystal tears

Crystal-NEW ORDER (single, 2001)
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Dreams-FLEETWOOD MAC
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In the summer-BILL PRITCHARD 
Lyrics: you trusted crystal accents

Venus-SHOCKING BLUE
Lyrics: her weapons were her crystal eyes

Wasteland-MISSION
Lyrics: there’s a crystal view from my window



motorcycle

You know what to do to me-CARLY SIMON
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cymbal

Poison arrow-ABC
Lyrics: no rhythm in cymbals...



cynical

Alcoholic - STARSAILOR
Lyrics: and the cynics won't get in your way

Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS
Lyrics: guilty about their cynicism

Country house-BLUR
Lyrics: I’m a professional cynic

Here’s where the story ends-SUNDAYS
Lyrics:

Logical song-SUPERTRAMP
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Millennium-ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics:

Money Go Round-STYLE COUNCIL
Lyrics: