Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - D (Delta)

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

D
(31 words)

daffodil (ασφόδελος)

Let's Go Crazy - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION (OST Purple Rain, 1984)

Lyrics: Dr. Everything'll-Be-All-Right Will make everything go wrong Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill

Some Velvet Morning - NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD (single, 1967)

Lyrics: Flowers growing on a hill I'm gonna open up your gate Dragonflies and daffodils And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra

deacon (διάκονος)

Deacon Blues - STEELY DAN (LP Aja, 1977)
Lyrics: they call Alabama The Crimson Tide, call me Deacon Blues

My Names Is Prince - PRINCE & THE NEW POWER GENERATION (LP Love Symbol, 1992)

Lyrics: The funkier I be The funkier I get, oh, shit Lickety split on the lyric A new jack in the pulpit Watch it, deacon, your track is leakin' What is this you're seekin'? The syncopated rhymes are at their peak



decade (δεκαετία)

Little Bones - TRAGICALLY HIP (LP Road Apples, 1991)

Lyrics: Two fifty for a decade And a buck and a half for a year

delta (δέλτα)

Delta Dawn - HELEN REDDY (single, 1973)
Lyrics: In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn, prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on

Delta Lady - JOE COCKER (LP Joe Cocker! 1969)
Lyrics: you're my Delta Lady

Graceland - PAUL SIMON (LP Graceland, 1986)
Lyrics: The Mississippi Delta was shining

Machine Gun Ibiza - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Jordan: The Comeback, 1990)
Lyrics: he's a stone delta blues man

Ode To Billie Joe - BOBBIE GENTRY (single, 1967)
Lyrics: It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day

Quand Je T'aime - DEMIS ROUSSOS (LP Le Grec, 1988)

Lyrics: Quand je t'aime J'ai l'impression d'être un roi Un chevalier d'autrefois Le seul homme sur la Terre Quand je t'aime J'ai l'impression d'être à toi Comme la rivière au delta Prisonnier volontaire

Walking In Memphis - MARC COHN (LP Walking In Memphis, 1991)
Lyrics: Put on my Blue Suede Shoes and I borded the plane, touched downin the Land of the Delta Blues in the middle of the pouring rain



democracy (δημοκρατία)

Blind - TALKING HEADS (LP Naked, 1988)
Lyrics: all in the name of democracy

Comfort Eagle - CAKE (LP Comfort Eagle, 2001)

Lyrics: Some people drink Pepsi, some people drink Coke The wacky morning DJ says democracy's a joke

Good Morning Britain - AZTEC CAMERA feat. MICK JONES (LP Stray, 1990)
Lyrics: in the hills and the valleys and far away you can hear the song of democracy

Sowing The Seeds Of Love - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Seeds Of Love, 1989)
Lyrics: could you be squeaky clean and smash any hope of democracy

Universal Soldier - DONOVAN (single, 1965 / original by Buffy St. Marie)
Lyrics: he’s fighting for democracy

We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang - HEAVEN 17 (1981)

Lyrics: Democrats are out of power Across that great wide ocean Reagan's president elect Fascist God in motion

demographic (δημογραφικός)

I’d Rather Jack - THE REYNOLDS GIRLS (single, 1989)
Lyrics: Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits? That's not our music, it's out of date Demographic stereo They never play the songs we know

demon (δαίμων, δαίμονας)

Doctor Kiss-Kiss - 5.000 VOLTS (1976)
Lyrics: Just put away Your demon potion Cause you're playing With my emotion

Don’t Mess With Dr. Dream - THOMPSON TWINS (LP Here's To Future Days, 1985)
Lyrics: In the hours before the dawn You curse the day that you were born Those demons scream in ecstasy And you crawl around in agony

The Devil Went Down To Georgia - THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND (LP Milion Mile Reflections, 1979)
Lyrics: And then a band of demons joined in and it sounded something like this 

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - ELTON JOHN (LP Too Low For Zero, 1983)

Lyrics: And while I'm away Dust out the demons inside

I Want You Tonight - PABLO CRUISE (LP Part Of The Game, 1979)

Lyrics: sometimes when I talk I don't know who I'm foolin' As the demon livin' deep inside It's really me all right

Is There Something I Should Know? - DURAN DURAN (single, 1983)

Lyrics: And fiery demons all dance When you walk through that door

Judas - LADY GAGA (LP Born This Way, 2011)

Lyrics: Jesus is my virtue, and Judas is the demon I cling to

Kick It In - SIMPLE MINDS (1989)
Lyrics: don’t let the demons in

Making Love Out Of Nothing At All - AIR SUPPLY (1983)

Lyrics: I can make all your demons be gone

No More "I Love You’s" - THE LOVER SPEAKS (LP Lover Speaks, 1986)
Lyrics: I used to have demons in my room

No Regrets - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (1998)

Lyrics: I know they´re still talking (You´re far too short to carry weight) The demons in your head

One Of These Nights - EAGLES

Lyrics: You got your demons and you got desires... I've been searching for the daughter of the devil himself I've been searching for an angel in white

Rainbow In The Dark - DIO

Lyrics: Do your demons Do they ever let you go? When you try, do they hide deep inside?

Run Samson Run - NEIL SEDAKA (single, 1960)

Lyrics:  In the Bible, 1000 year BC... She was a demon, a devil in disguise

Rush Rush - DEBBIE HARRY 

Lyrics: He's a real speed demon He's one of a kind

Station To Station - DAVID BOWIE

Lyrics: Here are we, one magical movement From Kether to Malkuth There are you, drive like a demon From station to station

Summer (The First Time) - BOBBY GOLDSBORO
Lyrics: the sun was a demon

Tender - BLUR

Lyrics: Tender is the day The demons go away

Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON (LP Thriller, 1982)

Lyrics: They're out to get you There's demons closing in on every side

Tired Of Being Sorry - RINGSIDE (2005)

Lyrics: Lets me down so For a thousand reasons that I know To share forever the unrest With all the demons I possess Beneath the silver moon

2 Minutes To Midnight - IRON MAIDEN

Lyrics: The killer's breed or the demon's seed

The Wizard - BLACK SABBATH

Lyrics: Evil power disappears Demons worry when the wizard is near

Welcome To The Black Parade - MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (2006)

Lyrics: When I was a young boy, my father Took me into the city to see a marching band He said, "Son, when you grow up, would you be The savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?" He said, "Will you defeat them, your demons And all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom To lead you in the summer to join the black parade"

You Want It Darker - LEONARD COHEN (2016)

Lyrics: They're lining up the prisoners And the guards are taking aim I struggled with some demons They were middle-class and tame I didn't know I had permission To murder and to maim You want it darker

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devil

After Dark - TITO & TARANTURA (1996)

Lyrics: I'm knocking on the devil's door

Black Magic Woman - FLEETWOOD MAC, SANTANA

Lyrics: She's tryin' to make a Devil out of me

Das Omen - MYSTERIOUS ART (1989)

Lyrics: If there's a devil in your dreams Call the omen!

Devil Gate Drive - SUZI QUATRO (1974)

Lyrics

Devil's Ball - DOUBLE (1987)

Lyrics

The Devil Went Down To Georgia - THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND (LP Milion Mile Reflections, 1979)
Lyrics:

Do You Love Me? - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

Lyrics: I found God and all His devils inside her In my bed she cast the blizzard out

Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER  (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: Ashes to ashes, and it's dust to dust Well, if you won't take me then I guess the devil must

Dr. Mabuse (A Paranoid Fantasy) - PROPAGANDA (single, 1984 / LP A Secret Wish, 1985)

Lyrics: He's devoted to the devil fascinated by crime Glamorous death is his destination Eternal passion his gain

If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body - THE BELLAMY BROTHERS (LP The Two & Only, 1979)

Lyrics: If I swore you were an angel Would you treat me like the devil tonight?

Jackie - SCOTT WALKER (single, 1967)

Lyrics: When my angelic work was through The angels and the Devil, too Would sing my childhood song to me About the time they called me "Jackie"

The Light Will Stay On - THE WALKABOUTS (LP Devil's Road, 1996)

Lyrics: I go to sleep, before the devil wakes And I wake up, before the angels take

Maybe - BRAINSTORM (LP Online, 2001)

Lyrics: my devil, my God

One Of These Nights - EAGLES

Lyrics: I've been searching for the daughter of the devil himself I've been searching for an angel in white

Run Samson Run - NEIL SEDAKA (single, 1960)

Lyrics:  In the Bible, 1000 year BC... She was a demon, a devil in disguise

Rush Rush - DEBBIE HARRY 

Lyrics: a son of a devil (see: demon)

Sinnerman - NINA SIMONE (1965)

Lyrics: But the Lord said, "Go to the devil" The Lord said, "Go to the devil" He said, "Go to the devil" All on that day So I ran to the devil He was waiting I ran to the devil, he was waiting 

Spanish Train - CHRIS DE BURGH (1975)

Lyrics: Well a railwayman lay dying with his people by his side His family were crying, knelt in prayer before he died But above his bed just awaiting for the dead Was the Devil with a twinkle in his eye "Well God's not around and look what I've found, this one's mine!" Just then the Lord himself appeared in a blinding flash of light And shouted at the Devil, "Get thee hence to endless night!" But the Devil just grinned and said "I may have sinned But there's no need to push me around I got here first so you can do your worst He's going underground!" "But I think I'll give you one more chance" Said the Devil with a smile "So throw away that stupid lance It's really not your style" "Joker is the name, Poker is the game We'll play right here on this bed And then we'll bet for the biggest stakes yet The souls of the dead!"

Strange Kind Of Love - LOVE & MONEY (LP Strange Kind Of Love, 1988)

Lyrics: I could never be your friend If I could never be you King I'm wide open Can you hear the devil sing?

Toxic - BRITNEY SPEARS

Lyrics: It's gettin' late to give you up I took a sip from my devil's cup Slowly, it's takin' over me

What Difference Does It Make - THE SMITHS
Lyrics: Oh, the devil will find work For idle hands to do I stole, and then I lied Just because you asked me to

When You Were Young - THE KILLERS (2006)

Lyrics: They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet You don't have to drink right now

Deuteronomy (Δευτερονόμιον)

Jokerman - BOB DYLAN (LP Infidels, 1983)

Lyrics: Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers

diabolical

Let's Talk About Sex - SALT-N-PEPA (LP Black's Magic, 1990)

Lyrics: He may fiend and have a wet dream Because he seen a teen in tight jeans What makes him react like that is biological But scheme of gettin' in those jeans, is diabolical

diagnose

Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER  (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: Well, you got that somethin' and it's hard to specify I just can't diagnose that look that's in your eyes

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY
Lyrics: I know what the time is and the crowd will keep on playing it Through the speaker boxes. Loud's my diagnosis



diagram

Build - THE HOUSEMARTINS (1987)
Lyrics: Whistling men in yellow vans They came and drew us diagrams Showed us how it all worked out And wrote it down in case of doubt

Carbon Kid - ALPINESTARS feat. BRIAN MOLKO (2002)

Lyrics: You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram



dialogue

Holidays In The Sun - THE SEX PISTOLS
Lyrics:

She's In Parties - BAUHAUS

Lyrics: Hot lines under a rain of drums Cigarette props in action Dialogue dub, now here's the rub She's acting her reaction

diamond

A Whole New World - PEABO BRYSON & REGINA BELLE (OST Aladdin, 1992)

Lyrics: Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling Through an endless diamond sky

All I Want Is You - U2

Lyrics: You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold You say you want Your story to remain untold

Blazing - ALEX SID & QUASAMODO (2023)

Lyrics: Transformed under pressure to stone Archived when the heart was a diamond

Copacabana - BARRY MANILOW (1978)

Lyrics: His name was Rico, he wore a diamond He was escorted to his chair

Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend - MARILYN

Diamonds Are Forever - SHIRLEY BASSEY

Don't Cha - THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS

Lyrics: No tricks, only diamonds under my sleeve Gimme the number, but make sure you call before you leave

Express Yourself - MADONNA    

Lyrics: You don't need diamond rings Or eighteen karat gold Fancy cars that go very fast You know they never last, no no

For Your Love - THE YARDBIRDS (1965)

Get It On (Bang A Gong) - T-REX (1971)

Have A Nice Day - BON JOVI (2005)

Lyrics: I'm gonna live my life Shinin' like a diamond, rollin' with the dice

Hypnotic Tango - MY MINE (1983)

I Can Make You Feel Good - SHALAMAR

Lyrics: There's guys that offer you diamonds and pearls Those are the ones without the need

Israelism - ARMY OF LOVERS 

Lyrics: Diamond market in the ghetto Star of David on my chest

Kid Charlemagne - STEELY DAN (1976)

Lyrics: You were the best in town Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl You turned it on the world That's when you turned the world around

La la Means I Love You - THE DELFONICS

Lyrics: Now I don't wear a diamond ring I don't even know a song to sing All I know is La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la means

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - THE BEATLES

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Middle Of The Road - THE PRETENDERS (single, 1983 / LP Learning To Crawl, 1984)

Lyrics: Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits

Precious Little Diamond - FOX THE FOX 

Rose Garden - LYNN ANDERSON (1970)

Lyrics: I could promise you things like big diamond rings But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover So you better think it over

Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM DAWN (1991)

Lyrics: The camera pans the cocktail glass Behind a blind of plastic plants I found the lady with the fat diamond ring Then you know I can't remember a damn thing

Sexy Boy - AIR (LP Moon Safari, 1997)

Lyrics: Dans leurs yeux des dollars Dans leurs sourires des diamants Moi aussi, un jour Je serai beau comme un Dieu

Shape Of My Heart - STING

Sharp Dressed man - ZZ TOP (1983)

Some Hearts Are Diamonds - CHRIS NORMAN

Stone Woman - BRYAN FERRY (1985)

Lyrics: What do you find on the street tonight? Nothing – it's a river of no return Diamonds – they're your only friend tonight Break the mirror and bang the drum

This Diamond Ring - GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS

Lyrics: Who wants to buy This diamond ring? She took it off her finger now It doesn't mean a thing

Tonight, I Celebrate My Love For You - PEABO BRYSON & ROBERT FLACK

Lyrics: Tonight, our spirits will be climbing To a sky lit up with diamonds

Two Princes - SPIN DOCTORS (1991)

Lyrics: Princes, princes who adore you Just go ahead now One has diamonds in his pockets And that's some bread now This one, who wants to buy you rockets Ain't in his head now

The Way That You Love Me - PAULA ABDUL (1988)

Lyrics: It ain't the money or the diamond rings Honey, I ain't impressed with your material things

Welcome To The Pleasuredome -FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (1984)

Lyrics: I will give you diamonds by the shower



diet

Money-Go-Round - THE STYLE COUNCIL (single, 1983)
Lyrics: The brave and the bold are the ones to be fooled With a diet of lies by the Kipling school



dilemma

Dilemma - NELLY feat. KELLY ROWLAND
Lyrics:



dinosaur

Cadillac Ranch - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP The River, 1980)

Lyrics: 

City Of Dreams - TALKING HEADS (LP True Stories, 1986)

Lyrics: Here where you are standing The dinosaurs did a dance

Walk The Dinosaur - WAS (NOT WAS) (LP What Up, Dog, 1987)

Lyrics: 



diploma

Don't Marry Her - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

Lyrics: And the kitchen's always tidy And the bathroom's always clean She's a diploma in "just hiding things" You've a first in "low esteem"



diplomat

Blinded By The Light - MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND (1976)
Lyrics: Madman, drummers, bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

Highly Strung - SPANDAU BALLET 
Lyrics: she used to be a diplomat

Leave In Silence - DEPECHE MODE   
Lyrics: diplomatic relations

Something Special - DE-PHAZZ

Lyrics: If I would ever lose you To someone else one day I shall be diplomatic Just like Cassius Clay

Sun City - ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID
Lyrics: quiet diplomacy



disaster

Cotton-Eye Joe - REDNEX

Lyrics: He brought disaster wherever he went

I'm Waking Up To Us - BELLE & SEBASTIAN (2001)

Lyrics: I think I’m waking up to us, we’re a disaster You don’t want to know me ‘Cause you move in circles of the brave Where art defines their lives

Too Much Love Will Kill You - QUEEN

Lyrics:

disc

The Rapture - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (LP The Rapture, 1995)

Lyrics: By the crescent disc rising amethyst Somnambulist unharnessed storms the plow By the crescent disc rising amethyst How can love remain the same unchained?

disco(theque)

All I Wanna Do - SHERYL CROW
Lyrics: this ain’t no disco

Blame It On The Boogie - THE JACKSONS
Lyrics: at every kind of disco

Crying At The Discotheque - ALCAZAR
Lyrics:

Good Morning World - MOMUS (LP 20 Vodka Jellies, 1994)

Lyrics: Shake it at a nightclub (la la la la la la) Disco till the crack of dawn

He’s The Greatest Dancer - SISTER SLEDGE
Lyrics: One night in the disco on the outskirts of Frisco I was cruisin' with my favorite gang

Heart Of Stone - DAVID A. STEWART

Lyrics: She said I really dig Disco music

I’m Too Sexy - RIGHT SAID FRED   
Lyrics: disco dancing

Kids Wanna Rock - BRYAN ADAMS
Lyrics: sounded like a disco

Ma Quale Idea - PINO D'ANGIO (1980)

Lyrics: L'ho beccata in discoteca con lo sguardo da serpente Io mi sono avvicinato, lei già non capiva niente

Never Knew Your Name - MADNESS
Lyrics: in the discotheque

New York, N.Y. - NINA HAGEN
Lyrics: Und nach meiner Show, da bin ich immer so froh Und alle gehen wir in die Disco Bou bou bou bou Wir gehen in die nächste Disco Eine Disco nach der anderen Disco Und wackeln im Takt zu Wackelwabdidab AM-PM, Pyramid, Roxy, Mudclub, Danceteria - Der neueste Nightclub macht auf heut' Nacht

Panic - SMITHS
Lyrics: burn down the disco

Play That Funky Music - WILD CHERRY
Lyrics:

Pop Muzik - M
Lyrics: you’re living in a disco

Reckless - AFRICA BAMBAATA & FAMILY featuring  UB 40
Lyrics: standin’ by the disco floor

dolphin

The Dolphin's Cry - LIVE (1999)

Lyrics: Can you hear the dolphin's cry? See the road rise up to meet us It's in the air we breathe tonight Love will lead us, she will lead us

Heroes - DAVID BOWIE
Lyrics: I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim

dome

Step It Up - STEREO MC'S (1992)

Lyrics: I'm in you form the outset Hip to hip and dome to dome

Welcome To The Pleasuredome -FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (1984)

Lyrics: 

(over)dose

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY
Lyrics: heavy dosis

Millennium - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics:

Mothers Little Helper - THE ROLLING STONES
Lyrics:



dragon (fly)

A Special Kind Of Man - ROGER WHITTAKER (1971) 

Lyrics: He painted scenes of dragons Knights in armour, bold and brave And show me how they rescue ladies fair And I killed a hundred dragons

Feeling Good - NINA SIMONE (1965)

Lyrics: Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean, don't you know?

Puff, The Magic Dragon - PETER, PAUL & MARY (1963)

Lyrics: Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee



drama

Bad Romance - LADY GAGA
Lyrics:

Jeanny - FALCO (1985)

Lyrics: In den letzten Monaten ist die Zahl der vermissten Personen dramatisch angestiegen

Lean on me (ah- li- ayo)-RED BOX
Lyrics: cut of drama power

My Humps - THE BLACK EYED PEAS
Lyrics:

19 - PAUL HARDCASTLE
Lyrics: post-dramatic stress disorder

No More Drama - MARY J. BLIGE
Lyrics:

Overkill (Is It Over Now?) - KOSHEEN (2007)

Lyrics: Is it over now Over something that you overheard It is over dramatized Over complicated, overhit

Rush Rush - PAULA ABDUL (1991)

Lyrics: If I'm not inside your arms I get dramatic, baby, yes, I know

She's My Collar - GORILLAZ (2017)

Lyrics: If I could take her down and run, then I'd call her 'Cause she's standing drama, she know I'll call her

Signed On My Tattoo - ARMY OF LOVERS feat. GRAVITONS (2013)

Lyrics: It’s a wicked game, you’re my deadly drama Even if I conquer outer space you’ll return the karma

Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)
Lyrics: I think the whole world addicted to the drama only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

drastic

Mr. Crowley - OZZY OSBOURNE

Lyrics: Approaching a time that is classic I hear that maiden's call Approaching a time that is drastic Standing with their backs to the wall

dynamic

New Frontier - DON FAGEN
Lyrics: she's got the right dynamic for the new frontier



dynamite

Cocaine In My Brain - DILLINGER (1976)
Lyrics: I want you to hold me tight, 'cause I'm out of sight and I'm a-dynamite

Dance The Kung Fu - CARL DOUGLAS (LP Kung Fu Fighter, 1974)

Lyrics: You swing to your left Then you swing to your right This new dance, people Is pure dynamite

Dynamite - JERMAINE JACKSON
Lyrics:

Killer Queen - QUEEN
Lyrics: dynamite with a laser beam

Tobacco Road - NASHVILLE TEENS
Lyrics:

What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - SHAKIN STEVENS
Lyrics: Well that's allright I can do it home tonight And baby don't fight we're messing with dynamite



dynasty

Hey Matthew - KAREL FIALKA
Lyrics: I see Dallas, Dynasty

Kiss - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
Lyrics: you don’t have to watch Dynasty