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

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
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




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demographic

I’d rather jack-THE REYNOLDS GIRLS
Lyrics: demographic stereo



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....

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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)
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)

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
Lyrics:

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
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:

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baptize (βαπτίζω)

Ask The Lord - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)
Lyrics: hot summer rain burn me on the wheel, baptize me with fire

Madonna’s Eyes - JENNIFER RUSH (LP Jennifer Rush, 1984)
Madonna's Eyes - JAYNE COLLINS (single, 1985)
Lyrics: she will baptise all the waiting men



barbarian (βάρβαρος)

Barbarism Begins At Home - THE SMITHS (LP Meat Is Murder, 1985)
Lyrics



baritone (βαρύτονος)

Blinded By The Light - MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND (LP The Roaring Silence, 1976)
Lyrics: some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone, preacher from the east



base, basic (βάση, βασικός)

Don't Break My Heart - UB40 (LP Baggariddim, 1985)

Lyrics: I know you love me And real basic love never dies

Perfect Way - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Cupid & Psyche 85, 1985)
Lyrics: I better get back to the basics for you



Bible (Βίβλος, βιβλίο)

American Pie - DON McLEAN (LP American Pie, 1971)
Lyrics: and do you have faith in God above if the Bible tells you so

Closer To Fine - INDIGO GIRLS (LP Indigo Girls, 1989)
Lyrics: we look to the children, we drink from the fountain, we go to the Bible, we go through the workout

The Future - LEONARD COHEN (LP The Future, 1992)

Lyrics: I'm the little Jew Who wrote the Bible I've seen the nations rise and fall I've heard their stories

I Want Your Sex - GEORGE MICHAEL (LP Faith, 1987)
Lyrics: I don’t need no Bible

Jack & Diane - JOHN COUGAR (LP American Fool, 1982)
Lyrics: let the Bible belt come down & save my soul

Jesus Of Suburbia - GREEN DAY (LP Bullet In A Bible, 2005)
Lyrics: I'm the son of rage and love The Jesus of Suburbia The Bible of none of the above

Judas - LADY GAGA (LP Born This Way, 2011)
Lyrics: in the most Biblical sense, I am beyond repentance

Locomotive Breath - JETHRO TULL (LP Aqualung, 1971)
Lyrics: he picks up Gideons Bible open at page one

Missionary Man - EURYTHMICS (LP Revenge, 1986)
Lyrics: black eyed looks from these Bible looks

Pink Cadillac - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (b side on ''Dancing In The Dark'', 1984)
Lyrics: way back in the Bible, temptations always come along

Rain On The Scarecrow - JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP (LP Scarecrow, 1985)
Lyrics: grandma's on the front porch swing with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land

Rasputin - BONEY M (LP Nightflight To Venus, 1978)
Lyrics: he could preach the Bible like a preacher, full of ecstasy & fire but he also was the kind of teacher women would desire

Respect Yourself - BRUCE WILLIS (orig. The Staple Singers) (LP The Return Of Bruno, 1987)
Lyrics: if you don’t give a heck about the man with the Bible in his hand

The Fifth Horseman - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics: the Bible mentions four, I tell you there's one more

The Honeythief - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)       
Lyrics: Sleek big cat Bible black

The Pusher - STEPPENWOLF (LP Steppenwolf, 1968)

Lyrics: I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun



biography (βιογραφία)

Blind - TALKING HEADS (LP Naked, 1988)
Lyrics: got a face of stone and a ghostwritten biography



biology (βιολογία)

Jimmy Lee - ARETHA FRANKLIN (LP Aretha, 1986)
Lyrics: history, biology & that magical December

Russians - STING (LP The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)
Lyrics: we share the same biology, regardless of ideology

She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY (single, 1982)
Lyrics: she failed me in biology

Wonderful World - SAM COOKE (single, 1960)
Lyrics: don't know much biology



blasphemy (βλασφημία)

Blasphemous Rumours - DEPECHE MODE (LP Some Great Reward, 1984)
Lyrics: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find Him laughing

Shoot Me Down - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (LP Love Not Money, 1985)
Lyrics: these drunken blasphemies must never make us enemies

Watchdogs - UB 40 (LP Rat In The Kitchen, 1988)
Lyrics: the blasphemies keep coming



bomb (βόμβα, βόμβος)

Ask - THE SMITHS
Lyrics:

Beatles & Stones - THE HOUSE OF LOVE 

Lyrics: A bomb from the sky Is the perfect crime

Buffalo Stance - NENEH CHERRY

Lyrics: 

California Love - 2PAC feat. DR. DRE
Lyrics:

Capital G - NINE INCH NAILS
Lyrics:

Cherry Bomb - JOHN MELLENCAMP
Lyrics:

Cherry Bomb - THE RUNAWAYS
Lyrics:

Don't Stop Me Now - QUEEN
Lyrics:

Everyday Is Like Sunday - MORRISSEY

Lyrics:

Forever Young - ALPHAVILLE (LP Forever Young, 1984)
Lyrics: Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

God Save The Queen - SEX PISTOLS
Lyrics: It made you a moron Potential H-bomb

I Saved The World Today - EURYTHMICS

Lyrics: 

Miss Atomic Bomb - THE KILLERS
Lyrics:

Mother - PINK FLOYD
Lyrics:

1999 - PRINCE
Lyrics:

Not Now John - PINK FLOYD

Lyrics: 

Pour Some Sugar On Me - DEF LEPPARD
Lyrics:

Sign 'O The Thimes - PRINCE

The Boy In The Bubble - PAUL SIMON
Lyrics:

Time Bomb - CHUMBAWAMBA
Lyrics:

Two Tribes - FRANKIE FOES TO HOLLYWOOD

Lyrics: 

War Crimes - THE SPECIAL AKA

Lyrics:

We Didn't Start The Fire - BILLY JOEL
Lyrics:

box, boxing (πυξ)

The Boxer - SIMON & GARFUNKEL

When Love Breaks Down - PREFAB SPROUT