Τρίτη 7 Απριλίου 2026

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - N, O

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


N, O



Narcotic - LIQUIDO (single, 1998 / LP Liquido1999)
Lyrics: And I touched your face Narcotic mind from lazed, Mary-Jane



Under Construction



narcissus

The Dope Show - MARILYN MANSON          
narcissistic



neon

Beautiful Girl - INXS (1992)
Lyrics: Now where did you find her Among the neon lights... From doorway to doorway Street corner to corner With the neon ghosts in the city

Body Rock - MARIA VIDAL (1984)
Lyrics: We come from underground Oh, stickin' together, gonna turn the world around Runnin' through the neon night With a dream inside

City Of Blinding Lights - U2 (2004)
LyricsNeon heart, dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us

Close To You - MAXI PRIEST

Cold Days, Hot Nights - MOTI SPECIAL (1985)
Lyrics: Hot nights - when you're freezing On the street in the neon lights

Crossfire - STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Cult Of Personality - LIVING COLOUR

Don’t Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS   
I see neon lights

Downtown - PETULA CLARK

Election Day - ARCADIA     
opening eyes impale neon flickers

It's A Jungle Out There - BONNIE TYLER (1983)
Lyrics: The lonely and the lonely heart hunters The neon love life, oh, it cuts like a knife

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Under neon loneliness Motorcycle emptiness

Rainy Night In Georgia - BROOKE BENTON, GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS

The Ride, Part II - CALEXICO (1998)
Lyrics: Beneath the neon hub of downtown The local hotel ghosts blow back around

Somewhere Down The Crazy River - ROBBIE ROBERTSON  
distant red neon

Sometimes - JAMES           
like a neon sign

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL

Spice Of Life - MANHATTAN TRANSFER   
neon lights

This Time I Jnow It's For Real - DONNA SUMMER   
to say I love I love you with a neon sign
                             
Wages Day - DEACON BLUE       
outside the flashing neon sign
                                       
The World We Knew - FRANK SINATRA

You Belong To The City - GLENN FREY



nerve / nervous / neurotic

Bad Boy - RAY PARKER Jr.        
I had the nerve

Change - TEARS FOR FEARS      
I did not have the nerve

He's On The Phone - SAINT ETIENNE
Lyrics: It's five to twelve and she's nervous as hell With nothing to lose, it's hard to choose, it's hard to tell

I Believe - TEARS FOR FEARS
I could be wrong or have I hit a nerve

Life Of Surprises - PREFAB SPROUT    
neurotic impulse

The Living Daylights - A HA  
I swear my nerves are showing

Orchard Road - LEO SAYER           
nerve

Raspberry Beret - PRINCE     
she had the nerve to ask me

Thin Line Between Love & Hate - THE PERSUADERS  
you didn’t think the girl had the nerve

When You Walk In The Room - PAUL CARRACK        
nerve

Wouldn’t It Be Good - NIK KERSHAW   
through each and every nerve & fibre
        

                      
new

It’s Raining Men - WEATHER GIRLS  
have we got news for you

Rock& Roll Dreams Come Through - JIM STEINMAN 
there’s always something new



nitroglycerin

Maracaibo - LOUISA LOU COLOMBO   
nitroglycerina



nostalgic

Be My Twin - BROTHER BEYOND   
wrapped in sheer nostalgia

Diamonds & Rust - JOAN BAEZ

Two Horse Town - STEREO MC’s        
nostalgia

What A Fool Believes - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS



numismatic

Radio Musicola - NIK KERSHAW   
why tolerate this numismatical polity



oasis

Midnight At The Oasis - MARIA MULDAUR (1973)
Lyrics:

Native Boy - ANIMAL NIGHTLIFE (1983)
Lyrics: Familiar clubs, Familiar facеs A cool pool a refreshing oasis These are the things we enjoy!

Nights Over Egypt - THE JONES GIRLS (1981)
Lyrics: Take a caravan Across the Sudan Saharan facade Is just a mirage Oasis in the sand Where life once began Under the moonlight

Winter - LOVE & MONEY (1991)
Lyrics: You could bleed this starless night Like a desert oasis



Lyrics: I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

Lyrics: The ocean is a desert with its life underground And a perfect disguise above

Lyrics: My mouth by then like cardboard Seemed to slip straight through my head So we crash-dived straightway quickly And attacked the ocean bed

Lyrics: If our love song Could fly over mountains Could laugh at the ocean Just like the films

Lyrics: The flame that keeps on burning Mend a broken heart Sail upon the ocean Two heart that beat as one

Lyrics: Tell me 'bout the ocean moving in slow motion

Always - ERASURE (LP I Say I Say I Say1994)
Lyrics: Melting the ice for me Jump into the ocean Hold back the tide; I see Your love in motion

Lyrics: I might as well get over (The blues) Just like fishing in the ocean There'll always be someone new

And We Danced - HOOTERS     
like a wave on the ocean

Anyone Out There - DURAN DURAN (1981)
Lyrics: My face in the mirror shows a break in time A crack in the ocean, it does not align

As - STEVIE WONDER, GEORGE MICHAEL

Atlantis - DONOVAN
Lyrics: The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean

Big Decision - THAT PETROL EMOTION 
you ‘d rather sail the ocean

Bones - THE KILLERS

Boys Light Up - AUSTRALIAN CRAWL
Lyrics: Later, at the party, all the MPs rave 'Bout the hummers she's been givin' and the money that they save To her, it is skin lotion, him, promotion to that Flat in Surfer's Paradise with the ocean view

Cherish - KOOL & THE GANG  
near the ocean shore

The Cutter - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Lyrics: Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching Say we can, say we will Not just another drop in the ocean

Everybody's Talkin' - NILSSON (LP Aerial Ballet, 1968 / OST Midnight Cowboy, 1969) 
Lyrics: Sailin' on a summer breeze And skippin' over the ocean like a stone

Every Time - MUENCHENER FREIHEIT

Faith - GEORGE MICHAEL
before this river becomes an ocean

Fergus Sings The Blues - DEACON BLUE  
I got the blue blue ocean

Foreign Affair - MIKE OLDFIELD 
a drop in the ocean

Great Southern Land - ICEHOUSE (1982)
Lyrics: Standing at the limit of an endless ocean Stranded like a runaway lost at sea City on a rainy day down in the harbour Watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay

Heart Of Gold - NEIL YOUNG

If I was-MIDGE URE

It’s impossible-PERRY COMO

It’s over-ROXETTE
ocean of teardrops...

Just like heaven-CURE      
dancing in the deepest oceans

Letter from America-PROCLAIMERS     
I’ve looked at the ocean

Like a baby-WHAM           
I crossed the ocean

The Look-ROXETTE**    
she’s a miracle man loving is the ocean...

Love is the 7th wave-STING    
every ripple on the ocean

Maria-BLONDIE  
she’s oceans running down the drain

Martha’s Harbour - ALL ABOUT EVE  
you are an ocean wave my love

Mercy Mercy Me - MARVIN GAYE, ROBERT PALMER     
oil wasted on the oceans

Moonlight Feels Right - STARBUCK

My Love - PETULA CLARK

New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS (1982)
Lyrics: She is your friend Until the ocean breaks

Northwinds - THE STRANGLERS

The Ocean - RICHARD HAWLEY

Ocean Rain - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

Once In A Lifetime - TALKING HEADS    
the bottom of the ocean
 
One More Cup Of Coffee - BOB DYLAN   
your heart is like an ocean

Patrick, Mon Cheri - KIKI & PEARLY
Lyrics: I remember how we lay in the sun And went swimming in the warm ocean water

Poison Ivy-THE COASTERS

Pure - LIGHTNING SEEDS          
fresh & deep as oceans new

Red Sky - THRICE (2006)
Lyrics: I know the ocean speaks (The stars retreat behind their veil)

Rhythm Is Love - KESAIAH JONES     
the ocean loves the sea

Right here waiting - RICHARD MARX       
oceans apart

The right stuff-BRYAN FERRY    
black is the ocean

River of people-LOVE & MONEY 
the bottom of my wishing well is an o. of steel

Rock the boat-HUES CORPORATION

She blinded me with science-THOMAS DOLBY

Ship of fools-WORLD PARTY     
drowning in the oceans of history

State of the nation-NEW ORDER      
upon an ocean born to lose

Take my breath away-BERLIN            
on this endless ocean

That’s the way-CULTURE CLUB  
shedding tears as big as the ocean

This one-P. MacCARTNEY         
the swan is gliding above the ocean

Trumpets-WATERBOYS***    your life is like an ocean

The voice-MOODY BLUES       
ocean of life

Voyage voyage-DESIRELESS        
regarde l’ocean

The way of the world-TINA TURNER   
no ocean can keep us apart

When doves cry-PRINCE

When you come back to me-J. DONOVAN  
we’re oceans apart

Whole of the moon-WATERBOYS***     
wide oceans full of tears

Can’t stop the music-VILLAGE PEOPLE     
ocean.. ..motion

Chicago-GRAHAM NASH        
from the bottom of the ocean

The cutter-ECHO & TB   not just another drop in the ocean

Everybody plays the fool-MAIN INGRIDIENT 
love runs deeper than any ocean...

Green eyed Lady-SUGARLOAF          
ocean lady...

I build this garden for us-LENNY KRAVITZ

Little James-OASIS

Lotus-REM     
ocean flower aquarium

Rhythm of my heart-ROD STEWART 
where the ocean meets the sky

Wish you were here-BEE GEES



ode

Ode To My Family - THE CRANBERRIES



odyssey

City of New Orleans - ARLO GUTHRIE  
all along the south bound odyssey



oil

Mercy Mercy Me - ROBERT PALMER    
oil wasted on the oceans



opiate

For America - RED BOX    
Deviate to contemplate this audio visual opiate

Ideas As Opiates - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Hurting, 1983)



opium

Jackie - SCOTT WALKER
Lyrics: My name would then be handsome Jack And I'd sell boats of opium Whisky that came from Twickenham authentic queers and phony virgins

Queen of China town-AMANDA LEAR    
opium queen



optical

Undercover agent for the blues-T.J.WHITE   
optical illusion



orchestra

The last waltz-ENGELBERT HUMBERDINK

Thank you my love-IMAGINATION

There must be an angel-EURYTHMICS



orchid

Radio Orchid - FURY IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE



organ

Carnival - THE CARDIGANS
I hear sounds of lovers Barrel organs, mothers

Cloudbusting - KATE BUSH
I still dream of Organon



organized

Americanos - HOLLY JOHNSON   
Lyrics: everything’s organised



orgasm

If I Was Your Girlfriend - PRINCE



orgy

Last Years Man - LEONARD COHEN



orphan

The Sound Of Crying - PREFAB SPROUT    
Lyrics: another orphan baby

You Can Call Me Al - PAUL SIMON  
Lyrics: scatterlings & orphanages



orthodox 

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Life lies a slow suicide Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths



oyster

Lyrics: One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster


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