Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - K, L

 

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


K, L

kaleidoscope

Lucy in the sky with diamonds-BEATLES

Sebastian-COCKNEY REBEL

You bring on the sun-LONDON BEAT

karat

Express yourself-MADONNA     ...eighteen karat gold...

Leo

Five get over excited-HOUSEMARTINS   ...I’m a Leo and I’m hilarious...

What’s your sign-DES’REE

lesbian

lexicon

logic

50 ways to leave your lover-PAUL SIMON    ...if you take it logically ...

Desert rose-STING     ...the logic of all my dreams...

I want your sex-GEORGE MICHAEL      ..It’s logical...

Love is a wonderful thing-M. BOLTON     ...no logic can be found....

Lunatic-GAZEBO         ...strangest logic...

Sex laws-BECK     ...the logic of our sex laws...

                            

lotus

Bow down mister-JESUS LOVES YOU   ...open like a lotus flower...

Lotus-REM

lyrics

Don’t believe the hype-PUBLIC ENEMY

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - I, J

 

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

I, J

icon (εικόνα)

Presidential Suite - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (LP Rings Around The World, 2001)

Lyrics: Found an icon that gave him a hard-on Little Boris just can't help himself Got so hot in the decadent nineties Pass another vodka, dear

idea 

Criticize-ALEXANDER O’NEAL

Dream of me-O.M.D. (I had an idea, based on a love theme)

Goonies are good enough-CYNDI LAUPER (Ideas you used to play with)

I get a kick out of you-BILLIE HOLIDAY, FRANK SINATRA  ..my idea of...

If she knew what she wants-BANGLES  ..she’s got many ideas..

The lodgers-STYLE COUNCIL(school)

Me and I-ABBA      ...ideas that I got from good old Dr. Freud....

Sign of the times-PRINCE   ...idea of fun...    (Smash Hits 25 / 3 / 87)

Sowing ..of love-TEARS FOR FEARS ..politician granny with your

                                                               high ideals have you no idea how the majority feels..

This is not America-P.M.G. & D. BOWIE  ...I could have the faintest idea

ideal

Full sentimental          (ideal)

Ideal World - CHRISTIANS

ideology

Radio Musicola-NIK KERSHAW   ...I got some spiritual ideology for you..

Let it go-LUBA

Russians - STING  We share the same biology, regardless of ideology

idiot

My bag-L. COLE & THE C.       ....I can’t see the lines on my idiot board...

idol

It’s all right ma-BOB DYLAN     ...idolize....

Rock me Amadeus-FALCO   ..war ein rockidol...

idyll.....................................1/

instinct

Finest Worksong - REM  

Lyrics:  Take your instinct by the reins Better best to rearrange

In Your Eyes - PETER GABRIEL   ...all my instincts they return...

Moon Over Bourbon Street - STING

Room In Your Heart - LIVING IN A BOX

Upside down - DIANA ROSS

ironic

Fallen - LAUREN WOOD

Heaven Knows - ROBERT PLANT

What’s ...Kenneth-REM  ...you said that irony was the shackles of youth....

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - H

 

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

H

harmony (αρμονία)

Always - ERASURE (LP I Say I Say I Say, 1994)

Lyrics: I wanna be with you & make believe with you & live in harmony, O love

Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In - THE 5TH DIMENSION (LP The Age Of Aquarius, 1969)

Lyrics: harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding

Under Construction

Blind-TALKING HEADS  ...no sense of harmony... (catastrophe)

Ebony & ivory-PAUL MacCARTNEY        ...living in perfect harmony...

Feels like heaven-FICTION FACTORY

From a distance-BETTE MIDDLER

Hand in hand-KOREANA

In my dreams-REO SPEEDWAGON   ...just listen to the songbird harmonies...

I thank you-ADEVA         ...I thank you for love’s harmony...

I’ll go where your music takes me-J.JAMES    I’ll be your 2nd harmony...

A kind of magic-QUEEN**      ..I’m here in secret harmony...

Let him go-ANIMOTION       ...then you’ll live in harmony...

Love will save the day-W. HOUSTON  ..peace & harmony...

The miracle-QUEEN**              ...to live in perfect harmony...

No no never-MATT BIANCO*

Rome wasn’t built in a day-MORCHEEBA

She blinded me with science-THOMAS DOLBY

Side-TRAVIS      ...live our hearts? In harmony...

Sounds like a melody-ALPHAVILLE

Sunshine day-MATT BIANCO*

There ‘ll be sad songs-BILLY OCEAN

You decorated my life-KENNY ROGERS

When will you-DEACON BLUE    ...from disharmony....

helicopter

Rhythm of my heart-ROD STEWART   ...helicopter blade....

helix

Aja-STEELY DAN        ...helix...

hemisphere

Under African skies-PAUL SIMON    ...southern hemisphere...

hemi-powered

Born to run-BRUCE  ...beyond the palace hemi-powered  drones...

heretic

Are you ready....-L. C. & T. C. ....living like a heretic...

hero

Alive & kicking-SIMPLE MINDS   ...don’t you look down like the heroes say...

Americanos-HOLLY JOHNSON   ...movies and heroes...

Born to run-BRUCE    ...the highways jammed with broken heroes...

Boy in the bubble-P. SIMON  ...every generation throws a hero up the pop charts

Changing every day-CULTURE CLUB*   ..is a place for heroes...

Child of vision-SUPERTRAMP

Dancing girls-NIK KERSHAW   ...our hero sits with head in hands...

Damn I wish I was your lover-S.B.H     ....I had a dream I was your hero...

Don Quixote-NIK KERSHAW    ... just like super heroes...

Englishman in New York-STING

Get outta my dreams-BILLY OCEAN   ...just like a hero outta the blue...

Glory of love-PETER CETERA     ..I’ll be the hero you’re dreaming of..

Golden war-BLUE CAMERA

The Greatest love of all-G. BENSON, W. HOUSTON

I come undone-JENNIFER RUSH        ...love’s got it’s heroes...

If you could read my mind-GORDON LIGHTFOOT

I’m not your man-T. CONWELL & THE Y. R. ..cause you’re looking for a hero..

The last of...playboys-MORRISSEY         Dear hero imprisoned....

Looking through .. love-GENE PITNEY   ...a hero a giant...

Move away-CULTURE CLUB*    ...I never wanted to be a hero..

My old man’s a dustman-LONNIE DONNEGAN     ...about a lonesome hero...

Obsession-ARMY OF LOVERS

Our last summer-ABBA    ...yet you’re the hero of my dreams...

Rain or shine-5 STAR  ..all the super heroes (Robin Hood, Major Tom)..

Run silent-SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER    ...I need a hero...

We close our eyes-GO WEST

Wind beneath  my wings-BETTE MIDDLER

Wish you were here-PINK FLOYD

You’re history-SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER     ...I’m the hero of the hour..

You’re in the army-BOLLAND & BOLLAND

Cause you are young-C. C. CATCH    ...you’re a hero...

My life’s story-JEFF HEALEY       ..hero...

heroine

Dancing barefoot-PATTI SMITH, U2     ...heroine...

history

Don’t bang the drum-WATERBOYS    ...deliverance or history...

Drama!-ERASURE                  ...the history of the future...

God save the queen-SEX PISTOLS    ...god save history...

Hail hail rock’n’roll- GARLAND JEFFRIES

Hit me with your best shot-PAT BENATAR     ...long history...

Jimmy Lee-ARETHA FRANKLIN

Memories fade-TEARS FOR FEARS    ...when history’s my cage...

Monday morning blues-BREATHE    ...leave the answer to history...

More than a woman-BEE GEES

The riddle-NICK KERSHAW ..to keep from burning history..

Round & round-SPANDAU BALLET*

Safe in these arms-JIMMY SOMMERVILLE

She bangs-RICKY MARTIN

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

Sold-BOY GEORGE   ...I’m sick of making history...

Strange kind of woman-DEEP PURPLE

The sound of musik-FALCO       ...sie machen history...

Through the barricades-SPANDAU BALLET* ..father made my history..

The winner takes it all-ABBA**

Waterloo-ABBA**    ...the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself...

Wonderful world-SAM COOKE

Would I lie to you-CHARLES & EDDIE   (mystery)

Buffalo soldier-BOB MARLEY

There’s nothing...-OMAR  ...stick with me & we’ll make h.

holocaust 

The captain-LEONARD COHEN

Total Eclispe - KLAUS NOMI (1981)

hologram

Twist in my sobriety-TANITA TIKARAM    ...my eyes are just holograms...

horizon

Cars & girls-PREFAB SPROUT

Dance the world away-RICK SPRINGFIELD   ..shadow on our bright horizon..

The game-ECHO & THE B.      ...fallen from the stars that lift my horizon...

Miami-BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND

Men in Black-WILL SMITH

Lass mich dein pirat sein-NENA*   ..wir segeln bis zum horizont..

Lifted-LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY    ...up to new horizons...

Love town-BOOKER NEWBERRY III

The man with the child in his eyes-KATE BUSH

Manhattan skyline-A HA    ...a chance of a lifetime to see new horizons...

99 Luftballons-NENA*   ...auf ihrem weg zum horizont...

Nightingales-CAROLE KING      ....lost horizon..

No scrub-TLC      (στο πεζό μέρος)

Only he has the power ..-S. LAWRENCE / A. L. WEBBER

Rhinestone cowboy-GLEN CAMPBELL

St. Elmo’s fire-JOHN PARR       ..I can see a new horizon..

Take me home-PHIL COLLINS   ..I’ve got no far horizon..

Two horse town-STEREO MC’s

We’ve only just began-CARPENTERS  ..sharing horizons that are new to us...

A whole new world-PEABO BRYSON & REGINA BELLE (OST Aladdin)

horoscope

Games people play-JOE SOUTH

Tom’s diner-SUZANNE VEGA

hydra

Get it on-T-REX

hyena

hygiene

Ant rap-ADAM & THE ANTS

hypnotize[d]

American woman-GUESS WHO

The Beat(en) Generation-THE THE     ...hypnotised by the satellites...

Carnival-NATALIE MERCHANT         ...hypnotized..

Caterpillar-THE CURE*    ...you hold me hypnotized...

Cross my heart-EIGHTH WONDER  ...hypnotised with just one look..(paralyzed)

Dance with me-DEBELAH MORGAN      ...hypnotize...

Gypsy woman-SANTANA(90)

Handle with care-TRAVELLING WILBURYS  ..sent to meetings hypnotised..

It’s ecstasy...-BARRY WHITE

Men in black-WILL SMITH (97)    ...hypnotizer, neutralizer...

Punish me with kisses-THE CURE*   ...you touch my eyes and hypnotize...

Radar love-GOLDEN EARRING   ...the road has got me hypnotized...

Rapture-BLONDIE

State of shock-JACKSONS featuring M. JAGGER    ...hypnotized, paralyzed..

You can do magic-AMERICA

Woodpeckers from space-VIDEO KIDS

Wrapped around your finger-POLICE

hypocrites

No woman no cry-BOB MARLEY

Fight ... right-BEASTIE BOYS     ...that hypocrite smokes two packs a day...

Real people-CHIC       ....don’t want to live in hypocrisy...

Turn it up-SIMPLY RED     ...turn this hypocrisy round...

Walking on the sun-SMASHMOUTH (1999)    ...hypocrites...

hypothetical

Walking man-JAMES TAYLOR    ...hypothetical destination....

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - F, G

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

F, G


fantasy, fantastic (φαντασία, φανταστικός)

Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) - SOUL II SOUL (LP Club Classics Vol. One, 1989)
Lyrics: back from a fantasy

Imaginary Lover - ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION (LP Champagne Jam, 1978)

Lyrics: It's my private pleasure Midnight fantasy Someone to share my wildest dreams with me (the song refers to masturbation)



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Barbie Girl - AQUA
Lyrics: life in plastic, it's fantastic

Call Me - SPAGNA
Lyrics: all my fantasy to dream about you

Can’t Stop Loving You Now - MATTHEW FISHER
Lyrics: it's just a fantasy

China In Your Hand - T’PAU
Lyrics: a prophecy for a fantasy

Come Back & Stay - PAUL YOUNG
Lyrics: I shut my eyes and I fantasize

Don’t Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS
Lyrics: it might just be fantastic

Don’t Stand So Close To Me - THE POLICE
Lyrics: Young teacher, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy

Dreamtime - DARYL HALL
Lyrics: you were talking through the smoke in your fantasy... believe it's alright to fantasize

Enchanted Lady - THE PASADENAS
Lyrics: let’s explore all fantasies

Ghostdancing - SIMPLE MINDS
Lyrics: they all went to heaven in a stupid fantasy

Happy Children - P. LION
Lyrics: your fantasy will find new nice colours

Hey You - PINK FLOYD
Lyrics: but it was only a fantasy, the wall was too high

Hit me with your rythmstick - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS

Hungry eyes - ERIC CARMEN

I do what I do - JOHN TAYLOR 
that we fantasize

I’ve had the time of my life - B. MEDLEY & J. WARNES
as we felt this magical fantasy

I know him so well - E. PAIGE & B. DICKSON

Into the groove - MADONNA

Is your love strong enough - BRYAN FERRY

I should be so lucky - KYLIE MINOGUE

I wanna do it with you - B. MANILOW
I want to love out my fantasies

Keeping the dream alive-FREIHEIT

Kiss-PRINCE

Kiss you all over-EXILE

Music & lights-IMAGINATION
secret fantasies

Never too much-L. VANDROSS
my love fantasy

No mercy-STRANGLERS

No regrets-ROBBIE WILLIAMS (98)

Obsession-ANIMOTION
my fantasies are turned to madness

O Pastor-MADREDEUS
fantasia

Rain or shine-5 STAR
my fantasy come true

Round & round - SPANDAU BALLET

Saving all my love for you - WHITNEY HOUSTON
just an old f.

Street of dreams-RAINBOW

Truly madly deeply-SAVAGE GARDEN

Voices in my head-NAKED EYES

Who can it be now-MEN AT WORK

You can win if you want-MODERN TALKING

F.E.A.R.-IAN BROWN (2001)
fantastic expectations

Jackie don’t go-SURVIVOR



galaxy

Clouds across the moon - RAH BAND
this is the intergalactic operator

Cosmic girl - JAMIROQUAI

Spacer - SHEILA & B. DEVOTION

Weightless - PREFAB SPROUT



geometry

Perfect skin - L.C.A.T.COMMOTIONS

She blinded me with science - THOMAS DOLBY



giant

Le Geant De Papier - JEAN-JACQUES LAFON

Looking through the eyes of love - GENE PITNEY
a hero a giant

Time will crawl - DAVID BOWIE
I would not challenge a giant



government

Belfast child - SIMPLE MINDS
my faith in church & God & the government

Today - TALK TALK
governed by the title on the wall

Virtual insanity - JAMIROQUAI   
govern....



graph

Everything counts - DEPECHE MODE
the graph on the wall



graphite

I.G.Y. - DON FAGEN



guitar

Superstar - CARPENTERS
play your sad guitar



gym

American Pie - DON McLEAN
I saw you dancing in the gym

Memories - LEONARD COHEN
dance me to the dark side of the gym

Walk This Way - RUN DMC
school gym locker

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

Chains - TINA ARENA (LP Don't Ask, 1994)

Lyrics: I pretend I can always leave Free to go whenever I please But then the sound of my desperate calls Echo off these dungeon walls

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

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - THE JAM (LP All Mod Cons, 1978)

Lyrics: The distant echo Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains To take them home to The ones that they love and who love them forever

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 - PINK FLOYD (LP Meddle, 1971)

Lyrics: [Verse 1: David Gilmour & Richard Wright] Overhead, the albatross Hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine

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

Feels So Right - ALABAMA (LP Feels So Right, 1981)

Lyrics: Lying here beside you I hear the echoes of your sighs

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 Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - STEVIE WONDER (LP Talking Book, 1972)

Lyrics: And the words of love I speak to you Will echo in my mind

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
Lyrics: 

Outside Looking In - DREAM SEQUENCE (1982)

Lyrics: voices that echo to the darkness

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
Lyrics: 

Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Lyrics:

Stairway To Heaven - LED ZEPPELIN
Lyrics: 

Supreme - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics: echoes

The Living Years - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
Lyrics: 

The Spirit Of Radio - RUSH
Lyrics:

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
Lyrics:

Time Passages - AL STEWART (1978)

Lyrics: Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn

Town Called Malice - THE JAM
Lyrics: 

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
Lyrics:

Total Eclipse - KLAUS NOMI
Lyrics: 

Total Eclipse Of The Heart - BONNIE TYLER
Lyrics: 

You’re So Vain - CARLY SIMON

Lyrics:

ecological

Sweet Harmony - THE BELOVED

Lyrics:

economy

Ping Pong - STEREOLAB
Lyrics:

The River - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Lyrics:

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

Lyrics:

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

Fantasy - EARTH WIND & FIRE
Lyrics: 

Groovin' - THE YOUNG RASCALS
Lyrics:

I Love The Night (The Ecstasy Of Flight) - CHRIS DE BURGH
Lyrics: 

I Was Born To Love You - FREDDIE MERCURY
Lyrics: you’re my ecstasy

Music & Lights - IMAGINATION
Lyrics: 

Naked In The Rain - BLUE PEARL
Lyrics: 

Rent - PET SHOP BOYS
Lyrics: 

Secret Rendezvous - KARYN WITE
Lyrics: a first class ticket to ecstasy

Sometimes - ERASURE
Lyrics: as we fall in ecstasy

Street Player - CHICAGO
Lyrics: 

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
Lyrics:

You’re a woman-BAD BOYS BLUE
Lyrics: 

The way you make me feel-MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics: just hold me baby and I'm in ecstasy

One Night In Bangkok - MURRAY HEAD

Lyrics:

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
Lyrics:

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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Revolution Βaby - TRANSVISION VAMP
booster charged Electra

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

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

D


deacon (διάκονος)

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



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

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

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



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

Under construction 



demon

Don’t mess with Dr. Dream-THOMPSON TWINS
Lyrics: those demons scream in ecstasy

The Devil Went Down to Georgia-THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
Lyrics:

Kick it in-SIMPLE MINDS
Lyrics: don’t let the demons in

No more I love you’s-THE LOVER SPEAKS
Lyrics: I used to have demons in my room

Summer (The first time)-B. GOLDSBORO
Lyrics: the sun was a demon



diagnose

Lyrics: Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER 
(LP Calling card-1976)

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY
Lyrics: diagnosis



diagram

Build-HOUSEMARTINS
Lyrics: they came and drew us diagrams



dialogue

Holidays In The Sun - THE SEX PISTOLS
Lyrics:



diet

Money-Go-Round-STYLE COUNCIL
Lyrics: a diet of lies


dilemma

Dilemma - NELLY feat. KELLY ROWLAND
Lyrics:



diplomat

Blinded by the light-MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND
Lyrics:

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

Leave in silence-DEPECHE MODE   
Lyrics: diplomatic relations

Sun City - ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID
Lyrics: quiet diplomacy



disco

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

He’s The Greatest Dancer - SISTER SLEDGE
Lyrics:

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

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

Never Knew Your Name - MADNESS
Lyrics: in the discotheque

New York, N.Y. - NINA HAGEN
Lyrics:

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



overdose

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY
Lyrics: heavy dosis

Millennium - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics:

Mothers Little Helper - THE ROLLING STONES
Lyrics:



drama

Bad Romance - LADY GAGA
Lyrics:

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:



dynamic

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



dynamite

Cocaine - DILLINGER
Lyrics:

Dynamite - JERMAINE JACKSON
Lyrics:

Killer Queen - QUEEN
Lyrics: dynamite with a laser beam

Tobacco Road - NASHVILLE TEENS
Lyrics:

What Do You ... at me for - SHAKIN STEVENS
Lyrics: messing with dynamite



dynasty

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

Kiss-PRINCE
Lyrics: you don’t have to watch Dynasty....

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)

Bad Touch - BLOODHOUND GANG (LP Hooray For Boobies, 1999)

Lyrics: Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket Like the lost catacombs of Egypt, only God knows where we stuck it

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

Red Right Hand - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Let Love In, 1994)

Lyrics: You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan Designed and directed by his red right hand

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

Longer - DAN FOGELBERG (LP Phoenix, 1979)

Lyrics: Stronger than any mountain cathedral

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)
Lyrics



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)

Blind Vision - BLANCMANGE (single, 1983 / LP Mange Tout, 1984)

Lyrics: Blind centre, one centre

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

Left Of Center - SUZANNE VEGA feat. JOE JACKSON (single, 1986 / OST Pretty In Pink, 1986)
Lyrics: If you want me, you can find me Left of center, off of the strip

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



chaos (χάος)

The Soul Cages - STING (LP The Soul Cages, 1991)

Lyrics: A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie Where is the fisherman, where is the goat? Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?

Special K - PLACEBO (LP Black Market Music, 2000)
Lyrics: More than just the leitmotif, more chaotic, no relief

This Love - MAROON 5 (LP Songs About Jane, 2003)

Lyrics: I was so high, I did not recognize The fire burning in her eyes The chaos that controlled my mind

20 Seconds To Comply - SILVER BULLET (single, 1989)
Lyrics: Creatin' chaos the China Syndrome

When Tomorrow Comes - EURYTHMICS (LP Revenge, 1986)
Lyrics: Breathing shifts your careless head Untroubled by the chaos of our lives



charisma (χάρισμα)

The Hairstyle Of The Devil - MOMUS (LP Don't Stop The Night, 1989)

Lyrics: The inexplicable charisma of the rival

Under construction



chord

Long White Car - HIPSWAY

Lyrics: 

Sultans of swing-DIRE STRAITS
Lyrics:



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 
Lyrics:



climate

Nice'n'sleazy - THE STRANGLERS
Lyrics:



clinical

The Logical song-SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:



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
Lyrics:



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
Lyrics:

Razzmatazz - PULP (Now you're going with some kid who looks like some bad comedian)

Voices - RUSS BALLARD (1984)

Lyrics: If you really look deep, then maybe you'll find That somewhere there will be a place Hidden behind my comedian face

You're In My Heart - ROD STEWART



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
Lyrics:



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
Lyrics:



crystal

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

Crystal-NEW ORDER (single, 2001)
Lyrics:

Dreams-FLEETWOOD MAC
Lyrics:

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
Lyrics:



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
Lyrics:

Millennium-ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics:

Money Go Round-STYLE COUNCIL
Lyrics: