Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - B (Veta)

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

B


bacteria (βακτήρια)

Crying At The Discotheque - ALCAZAR (LP Casino, 2000)

Lyrics: A generation's on the move When disco spreads like a bacteria

Where Is The Love? - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Elephunk, 2003)

Lyrics: Wrong information always shown by the media Negative images is the main criteria Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

baptize (βαπτίζω)

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

Brothers In Arms - DIRE STRAITS (LP Brothers In Arms, 1985)

Lyrics: Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffering As the battle raged higher

Crying At The Discotheque - ALCAZAR (LP Casino, 2000)

Lyrics: The DJ takes you high Let tears of joy baptise the crowd

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

Pain Lies On The Riverside - LIVE (LP Mental Jewelry, 1991)

Lyrics: I have forever, always tried To stay clean and constantly baptized, oh I'm aware now that the river's banks, they are dry And to wait for a flood

barbarian (βάρβαρος)

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



barometer (βαρόμετρο)

It's Raining Men - THE WEATHER GIRLS (single, 1982 / LP Success, 1983)
Lyrics: Humidity is rising (Mm rising), barometer's getting low (How low, girl?)



base, basic (βάση, βασικός)

Boat On The River - STYX (LP Cornerstone, 1979)

Lyrics: The river, it touches my life like the waves on the sand And all roads lead to Tranquility Base Where the frown on my face disappears, whoa

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, biblical (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

Nightingales - PREFAB SPROUT feat. STEVIE WONDER (LP From Langley Park To Memphis, 1988)

Lyrics: God's a proud Thundercloud We are cartoon cats With a fear that is biblical Under our hats

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

Things Have Changed - BOB DYLAN (OST Wonder Boys, 2000)

Lyrics: If the Bible is right, the world will explode

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

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

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



biosphere (βιόσφαιρα)

I Breathe - VACUUM (LP The Plutonium Cathedral, 1997)

Lyrics: Green biosphere Clean biosphere Castles in air Climbing the stair Way to Heaven

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)

Aces High - IRON MAIDEN (LP Powerslave, 1984)

Lyrics: Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers Let off a sharp burst and then turn away

Ariel - DEAN FRIEDMAN (LP Dean Friedman, 1977)

Lyrics: We sat and we talked into the night While channel two was signing off the air I found the softness of her mouth We made love to bombs bursting in air

Ask - THE SMITHS (single, 1986)
Lyrics: Because if it's not love Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb The bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together

Beat Street Breakdown - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE (single, 1984 / OST Beat Street, 1984)

Lyrics:  And finally the bomb gets the last word

Beatles & Stones - THE HOUSE OF LOVE (LP The House Of Love, 1990)

Lyrics: He wants a bomb So do we A bomb from the sky Is the perfect crime Shoulder and shoulder and heat

Buffalo Stance - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1988)

Lyrics: Bomb the Bass, rock this place

California Love - 2PAC feat. DR. DRE & ROGER TROUTMAN (single, 1995)
Lyrics: Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex We in that sunshine state where the bomb-ass hemp be The state where you never find a dance floor empty

Capital G - NINE INCH NAILS (LP Year Zero, 2007)
Lyrics: I pushed a button and elected him to office and, uh He pushed a button and it dropped a bomb

Cherry Bomb - JOHN MELLENCAMP (LP The Lonesome Jubilee, 1987)
Lyrics: Outside the club Cherry Bomb Our hearts were really thumpin'

Cherry Bomb - THE RUNAWAYS (LP The Runaways, 1976)
Lyrics: Hello, Daddy, hello, Mom I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, cherry bomb

Don't Stop Me Now - QUEEN (LP Jazz, 1978)
Lyrics: I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars on a collision course I am a satellite, I'm out of control I'm a sex machine, ready to reload like an atom bomb About to oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, explode

Everyday Is Like Sunday - MORRISSEY (LP Viva Hate, 1988)

Lyrics: Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard "How I dearly wish I was not here" In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb Come, come, come, nuclear bomb

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

From A Distance - BETTE MIDLER (LP Some People's Lives, 1990)

Lyrics: there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease No hungry mouths to feed

God Save The Queen - SEX PISTOLS (LP Never Mind The Bollocks... 1977)
Lyrics: It made you a moron Potential H-bomb

I Saved The World Today - EURYTHMICS (LP Peace, 1999)

Lyrics: Monday finds you like a bomb It's been left ticking there too long

(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (OST Until The End Of The World, 1991)

Lyrics: The bomb and the bread basket are ready to blow

Love Missile F1-11 - SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK (LP Flaunt It, 1986)

Lyrics: The U.S. bombs cruisin' overhead There goes my love rocket red Shoot it up

Miss Atomic Bomb - THE KILLERS (LP Battle Born, 2012)
Lyrics: From Miss Atomic Bomb Making out we got the radio on

Mother - PINK FLOYD (LP The Wall, 1979)
Lyrics: Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?

1999 - PRINCE (LP 1999, 1982)
Lyrics: Everybody's got a bomb We could all die any day

Not Now John - PINK FLOYD (LP The Final Cut, 1983)

Lyrics: Can’t stop, lose job Mind gone, silicon Stroll on, what bomb?

Pour Some Sugar On Me - DEF LEPPARD (LP Hysteria, 1987)
Lyrics: Love is like a bomb, baby, come on, get it on Livin' like a lover with a radar phone Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp Demolition woman, can I be your man?

Sign O' The Times - PRINCE (LP Sign "O" The Times, 1987)

Lyrics:  if a night falls and a bomb falls Will anybody see the dawn?

The Boy In The Bubble - PAUL SIMON (LP Graceland, 1986)
Lyrics: There was a bright light, a shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio

Timebomb - CHUMBAWAMBA (single, 1993 / LP Anarchy, 1994)
Lyrics: I am a timebomb A ticking, ticking, ticking, timebomb

Two Tribes - FRANKIE FOES TO HOLLYWOOD (LP Welcome To The Pleasuredome, 1984)

Lyrics: We've got two tribes We got the bomb! We got the bomb! Yeah! Yeah

War Crimes - THE SPECIAL AKA (LP In The Studio, 1984)

Lyrics: Bombs to settle arguments, the order of the boot Can you hear them crying in the rubble of Beirut?

Way Of The World - MAX Q (LP Max Q, 1989)

Lyrics: Whether it's God or the bomb It's just the same It's only fear under another name And the corporate snakes coming in to feed

We Didn't Start The Fire - BILLY JOEL (LP Storm Front, 1989)
Lyrics: Rosenbergs, H-Bomb Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Woodstock - JONI MITCHELL (1970), MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT (1970)

Lyrics: And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky

box, boxing (πυξ)

Angel - ARETHA FRANKLIN (LP Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), 1973)

Lyrics: "You know, rather than go through a long drawn out thing I think the melody on the box will help me explain"

Every Lover's Sign - THE LOVER SPEAKS (LP The Lover Speaks, 1986)

Lyrics: I am I spy...spying on myself A tragic subject And in this lie a million musty reasons For a clumsy feeling In the melacholy boxing of a lover's conversation

Living In A Box - LIVING IN A BOX (LP Living In A Box, 1987)

Lyrics: Am I livin' in a box? Am I livin' in a cardboard box?

Pumped Up Kicks - FOSTER THE PEOPLE (single, 2010 / LP Torches, 2011)

Lyrics: he found a six-shooter gun In his dad's closet with a box of fun things I don't even know what But he's coming for you

Somewhere In My Heart - AZTEC CAMERA (LP Love, 1987)

Lyrics: Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves And singing hearts and flowers

The Boxer - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (single, 1969 / LP Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)

Lyrics: In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down

When Love Breaks Down - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Steve McQueen, 1985)

Lyrics: My love and I, we are boxing clever She'll never crowd me out