Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs : E (Epsilon)

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

E


echo (ἠχώ)

Africa - TOTO (LP Toto IV, 1982)
Lyrics: I hear the drums echoing tonight

All Souls Night - LOREENA McKENNITT (LP The Visit, 1991)
Lyrics: Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides, figures dance around and around to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness, moving to the pagan sound

Boy Child - NOEL SCOTT ENGEL (LP Scott 4, 1969)
Lyrics: echoes of laughter hide in the cities thighs

Breathless - DAN WILSON (LP Free Life, 2007)

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

Crazy - GNARLS BARKLEY (LP St. Elsewhere, 2006)
Lyrics: even your emotions have an echo in so much space

Desert Moon - DENNIS DeYOUNG (LP Desert Moon, 1984)

Lyrics: I still can hear the whisper of the summer nights It echoes in the corners of my heart

Don’t Need A Gun - BILLY IDOL (LP Whiplash Smile, 1986)
Lyrics: I see a scene so cold, it echoes in blue

Drumming Song - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE (LP Lungs, 2009)
Lyrics: but as the water fills my mouth, it couldn't wash the echoes out

Echo Beach - MARTHA & THE MUFFINS (LP Metro Music, 1980)
Lyrics

Echoes In The Night - GARY BROOKER (LP Echoes In The Night, 1985)
Lyrics: hold on to those echoes in the night

Everybody’s Talkin' - NILSSON (single, 1968 / OST Midnight Cowboy, 1969)
Lyrics: I don't hear a word they're saying, only the echoes of my mind

Fake Tales Of San Francisco - ARCTIC MONKEYS (LP Whatever People Say I Am... 2005)
Lyrics: echo through the room

(Feels Like) Heaven - FICTION FACTORY (LP Throw The Warped Wheel Out, 1984)
Lyrics: I can't believe the things you say, they echo what I fear

Forgotten Town - THE CHRISTIANS (LP The Christians, 1987)
Lyrics: hear your words echoing around my mind

From A Distance - BETTE MIDLER (LP Some People's Lives, 1990)
Lyrics: from a distance there is a harmony and it echoes through the land

Funhouse - P!NK (LP Funhouse, 2008)
Lyrics: echoes knocking on locked doors

I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) - GRACE JONES (LP Nightclubbing, 1981)

Lyrics: Footsteps echo on the stones

Long White Car - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)

Lyrics: Cool blue notes echo this land loud The jewels in my heart

Love In Your Eyes - GAZEBO (LP Gazebo, 1983)
Lyrics: Life is just a brand new Echo A Digital Delay




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echo

Midnight Summer Dream -  THE STRANGLERS
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Perfect Strangers - DEEP PURPLE
Lyrics: I am the echo of your mind

Pornography - THE CURE
Lyrics: echoes round the sweating bed

Seventh Stranger - DURAN DURAN
Lyrics: echoes growing in the heart of twilight

Soldier Of Fortune - DEEP PURPLE
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Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
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Stairway To Heaven - LED ZEPPELIN
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Supreme - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics: echoes

The Living Years - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
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The Spirit Of Radio - RUSH
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There Is An End - THE GREENHORNES feat. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
Lyrics: Words disappear Words weren't so clear Only echos passing through the night

Three Imaginary Boys - THE CURE
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Time Passages - AL STEWART (1978)

Lyrics: Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn

Town Called Malice - THE JAM
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Turn The Page - BOB SEGER 
Lyrics: echoes

Your Latest Trick - DIRE STRAITS
Lyrics: echoes roars dinosaurs

eclectic

Hello Again - THE CARS
Lyrics: you want to be eclectic

Starry Eyed Surprise - PAUL OAKEFOLD feat. SHIFTY SHELLSHOCK
Lyrics: Eclectic, electric, ladies of the evening drinking booze and mingling

eclipse

It’s All Right Ma - BOB DYLAN, BEF featuring T.T.D’ARBY

the child’s balloon eclipses both the sun & moon

Elevation - U2
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Total Eclipse - KLAUS NOMI
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Total Eclipse Of The Heart - BONNIE TYLER
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You’re So Vain - CARLY SIMON

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ecological

Sweet Harmony - THE BELOVED

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economy

Ping Pong - STEREOLAB
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The River - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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ecstasy

Baby Be Mine - MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics: we can share this ecstasy

Breakthrough - QUEEN
Lyrics: I wanna rush headlong into this ecstasy

Daydreamer-DAVID CASSIDY
Lyrics: I was living in the world of ecstasy

Divine Emotions - NARADA
Lyrics: a higher notion of ecstasy

Don’t Mess With Dr. Dream - THOMPSON TWINS

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Don't Stop Me Now - QUEEN
Lyrics: floating around in ecstasy

Fantasy - EARTH WIND & FIRE
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Groovin' - THE YOUNG RASCALS
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I Love The Night (The Ecstasy Of Flight) - CHRIS DE BURGH
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I Was Born To Love You - FREDDIE MERCURY
Lyrics: you’re my ecstasy

Music & Lights - IMAGINATION
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Naked In The Rain - BLUE PEARL
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Rent - PET SHOP BOYS
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Secret Rendezvous - KARYN WITE
Lyrics: a first class ticket to ecstasy

Sometimes - ERASURE
Lyrics: as we fall in ecstasy

Street Player - CHICAGO
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There’s Nothing Like This - OMAR
Lyrics: ecstasy the word of the night

To All The Men I've Loved Before - SHIRLEY BASSEY
Lyrics: who filled my nights with ecstasy

Touch My Heart - DANUTA
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You’re a woman-BAD BOYS BLUE
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The way you make me feel-MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics: just hold me baby and I'm in ecstasy

One Night In Bangkok - MURRAY HEAD

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ego

Ghostdancing-SIMPLE MINDS
Lyrics: shattered egos

Lady in black-URIAH HEEP

Lessons in love-LEVEL 42
for restless eyes egos burn

Meet El Presidente-DURAN DURAN 
hell has no fury like a young girl’s ego

Peek a boo-SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
flaccid ego in your hand

Ziggy Stardust-DAVID BOWIE

Die another day-MADONNA (2002) 
ego

electric

Are Friends Electric - TUBEWY ARMY

Caribbean Queen - BILLY OCEAN

Electricity - OMD
Lyrics:

First Time - ROBIN BECK
electricity flows like the very first kiss

Happy When It Rains - JESUS & MARY CHAIN
plug into her electric cool

Heaven In My Hands - LEVEL 42
it feels electric to me

Hello again-CARS
you want to feel electric... (eclectic)

Hold on to love-JON ANDERSON

Human nature-MICHAEL JACKSON 
electric eyes are everywhere

Ich steh auf licht-MUENCHENER FREIHEIT 
elektrisches licht

Like the way I do-M. ETHERIDGE
electrify....

Lola-KINKS
Lyrics; under electrician candle light

Mellow Yellow-DONOVAN 
Lyrics: electrical banana

New religion-DURAN DURAN 
sitting down electric chair

Rhythm of the night-DEBARGE
electric stars

Steppin’ out-JOE JACKSON 
electricity so fine

You may be right-BILLY JOEL
 alone in your electric chair

Birdhouse in your soul-THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 
electrical

elephant

Dear Jessie - MADONNA
pink elephants and lemonade

The Great Beyond - REM
I’m pushing an elephant up the stairs

Endymion

Jocelyn Square - LOVE & MONEY
in this pale Endymion hour

energy

Electric Υouth - DEBBIE GIBSON
feel the power you see the energy

Funky town-PSEUDO ECHO
keep me groovin’ with some energy

Infected-THE THE
I’ve got too much energy

Lover come back to me-DEAD OR ALIVE

The power of love-F. G. T. H.

Victory-KOOL & THE GANG
release that energy

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - INFORMATION SOCIETY
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enigma

Cowboy Dreams - PREFAB SPROUT
I’m gonna be your enigmatic stranger

Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmh To Me) - AMANDA LEAR

erotic

Wishing Well - TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY
erotic images floating through my head

ethnic

Ich bin ein auslander - POP WILL IT ITSELF
ethnic

euphoria

Die Sennerin vom Koenigsee - KIZ
ephorie



exorcism

Funhouse - P!NK

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