Παρασκευή 3 Νοεμβρίου 2017

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - C


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

C


calliope (Καλλιόπη)

Lyrics: The calliope crashed to the ground!



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

Telephone Mama - GAZEBO (single, 1984)
Lyrics: I took my colt and I pointed at her eyes Sentimental cancer That's what it was And I knew I lost my prize



carcinogenic (καρκινογένεση)

I Trawl The Megahertz - PADDY McALOON (LP I Trawl The Megahertz, 2003)
Lyrics: My kerosene dress and flint eyes Which one steady look, are able to restore To these images their carcinogenic threat So what if this is largely bravado?



carrot (καρότο)

Lyrics: Until the unity is threatened by Those who have and who have not Those who are with and those who are without And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot



catacomb (κατακόμβη)

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

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

King In A Catholic Style - CHINA CRISIS (LP Flaunt The Imperfection, 1985)
Lyrics: Wake up, wake up King in a catholic style With your man With your man make up And your big money business smile

Only The Good Die Young - BILLY JOEL (LP The Stranger, 1977)
Lyrics: you catholic girls start much too late



cemetery (κοιμητήριο)

Lyrics: Bodies in the bodhi tree Bodies making chemistry Bodies on my family Bodies in the way of me Bodies in the cemetery And that's the way it's gonna be

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

Walk The Last Mile - LOVE & MONEY (LP Strange Kind Of Love, 1988)
Lyrics: You're at the center of everything I do Wherever I go, I'll walk the last mile with you



chameleon (χαμαιλέων)

Lyrics: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon You come and go, you come and go

Lyrics: See chameleon Lying there in the sun All thanks to everyone Run, runaway



chaos (χάος)

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - THE POLICE (LP Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980)
Lyrics: Don't think me unkind Words are hard to find They're only cheques I've left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind

The Boy With The Arab Strap - BELLE & SEBASTIAN (LP The Boy With The Arab Strap, 1998)
Lyrics: Colour my life with the chaos of trouble 'Cause anything's better than posh isolation

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

I Am - ARMY OF LOVERS (1993)
Lyrics: Looking in the mirror The beauty that I see It's hard to be this grand for free Beg or steal or borrow You'll never live to be A charismatic star like me




Lyrics: Bodies in the bodhi tree Bodies making chemistry Bodies on my family Bodies in the way of me Bodies in the cemetery And that's the way it's gonna be

Lyrics: Six months with nothing other Than a duvet and a jug of water It's a chemical jackpot babe And we've got the winning number

Lyrics: We'll put out to sea And we'll perfect our chemistry

Lyrics: She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical Though you try to stop it, she's like a narcotic 

Radioactive - IMAGINE DRAGONS (LP Night Visions, 2012)
Lyrics: I'm waking up to ash and dust I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust I'm breathing in the chemicals



Lyrics: Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free

Fairytale of New York - THE POGUES feat. KIRST MacCOLL (LP 
Lyrics: [Shane & Kirsty] The boys of the NYPD choir were singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day

Lonely Sky - CHRIS DE BURGH (LP Spanish Train & Other Stories, 1975)
Lyrics: Even the choir rehearses those songs For christmas is not long And alone , i sing my song , she had to fly

Lyrics: Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir Of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre

The Sound Of Musik - FALCO (LP Emotional, 1986)
Lyrics: Hear the universal choir pray (The sound of Musik) Hear the James Brown song, hear the church choir sing

Lyrics:  But I don't see any angels in the city I don't hear any holy choir sing And if I can't get an angel, I can still get a boy And a boy'll be the next best thing

Whistle For The Choir - THE FRATELLIS (LP Costello Music, 2006)
Lyrics: Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord

Into The Great Wide Open - TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (LP Into The Great Wide Open, 1991)
Lyrics: He found a night club he could work at the door She had a guitar and she taught him some chords The sky was the limit

Long White Car - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)
Lyrics: Strike a chord and break my spine There is dust in their hearts

Lyrics: But life is both a major and a minor key Just open up the chord

Sultans Of Swing - DIRE STRAITS (LP Dire Straits, 1978)
Lyrics: You check out guitar George He knows all the chords Mind, it's strictly rhythm He doesn't want to make it cry or sing



chorus (χορός)

Evangeline - ICICLE WORKS (LP If You Want To Defeat..., 1987)
Lyrics: I could not believe, she was gone when I returned The forest's evening chorus was the only sound I heard



christian (χριστιανός)

Loving The Alien - DAVID BOWIE (LP Tonight, 1984)
Lyrics: Christians and the unbelievers Hanging by the cross and nail

Walking In Memphis - MARC KOHN (LP Walking In Memphis, 1991)
Lyrics: She said "Tell me are you a Christian child?" And I said "Ma'am I am tonight"



Under construction



chrome, chromium

Allentown - BILLY JOEL (1982)
Lyrics: No they never taught us what was real Iron and coke, chromium steel

Born To Run - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN  
Lyrics: chrome wheeled fuel injected

But You Don't Care - MI-SEX 
Lyrics: An old man saunters nearby Not noticing the flash of the chrome bars inside

What It's Like - EVERLAST (1998)
Lyrics: I knew this kid named Max, who used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs He like to hang out late, he like to get shit-faced and keep pace with thugs Until late one night there was a big gun fight and Max lost his head He pulled out his chrome .45, talked some shit and wound up dead

World Shut Your Mouth - JULIAN COPE
Lyrics: seems to have it all chromed



chronic

One In Ten - UB40 (1981)
Lyrics: I'm a middle aged businessman with chronic heart disease I'm another teenage suicide in a street that has no trees

Wish I Didn't Miss You - ANGIE STONE (2002)
Lyrics: Listen in, but don't yell at me Isn't it ironic? All you wanna do is smoke chronic Boy, you forgot when you were down who was around



church (Κυριακή)

Belfast Child - SIMPLE MINDS
Lyrics: All my life here I've spent With my faith in God the Church and the Government

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - STING
Lyrics: You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy church

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - CRASH TEST DUMMIES (1993)
Lyrics: there was this boy whose Parents made him come directly home right after school And when they went to their church They shook and lurched all over the church floor He couldn't quite explain it They'd always just gone there

Modern Love - DAVID BOWIE (1983)

Nutbush City Limits - IKE & TINA TURNER (1973)
Lyrics: A church house gin house A school house outhouse On highway number nineteen The people keep the city clean

Take Me To Church - HOZIER

Zoom - FAT LARRY'S BAND (1982)
Lyrics: Bang, just one touch, and all the church bells rang Heaven called and all the angels sang



cinema

Brimful Of Asha - CORNERSHOP (1997)
Lyrics: And singing, illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles We don't care about no government warning

Heartland - THE THE
Lyrics: past the Saturday morning cinema



circle

Bird Of Paradise - SNOWY WHITE
Lyrics: Wish that I could fly I'd be beside you now But I could only sigh And watch you circle round

Circle - EDIE BRICKEL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS (LP Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars, 1988)
Lyrics: Me I'm a part of your circle of friends And we Notice you don't come around

Life Is For Living - BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST (1980)
Lyrics: Turn around and see the circles we spin Taking our chances on where we begin

Lyrics: Life goes in circles, around and around Circulatin'

Mad World - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Hurting, 1983)
Lyrics: When people run in circles, it's a very, very mad world

Show Me The Way - PETER FRAMPTON (1975)
Lyrics: Well, I can see no reason You're living on your nerves When someone drops a cup, and I submerge I'm swimming in a circle

Why Can’t I Be You - THE CURE 
Lyrics: I‘ll run around in circles



circus

I’m Still Standing - ELTON JOHN 
Lyrics:

Mr. Tambourine Man - BOB DYLAN
Lyrics: 



classic

Classic - ADRIAN GURVITZ (LP Classic, 1982)
Lyrics: gotta a write a classic, gotta write it in an attic

I Like Chopin - GAZEBO (LP Gazebo, 1983)
Lyrics: Remember that piano So delightful, unusual That classic sensation Sentimental confusion

Mr. Crowley - OZZY OSBOURNE (LP Blizzard Of Oz, 1980) 
Lyrics: Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse? Mr. Crowley, it's symbolic, of course Approaching a time that is classic



climate

Nice 'N' Sleazy - THE STRANGLERS
Lyrics: We came across the west sea We didn't have much idea Of the kind of climate waiting We used our hands for guidance

Out Of Touch - HALL & OATES (1984)
Lyrics: Reachin' out for something to hold Looking for a love where the climate is cold



climax

Climax - USHER (2012)



clinic(al)

The Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:

Lyrics: I see a clinic full of cynics Who want to twist the people's wrist

What It's Like - EVERLAST (1998)
Lyrics: Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom who said he was in love He said "Don't worry about a thing, baby doll, I'm the man you've been dreamin' of" But three months later he say he won't date her or return her calls And she swear, "Goddamn, If I find that man I'm cuttin' off his balls" And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the door



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



colossal

Empty Souls - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (2004)
Lyrics: Exposed to a truth we don't know Collapsing like the Twin Towers Falling down like April showers Colossal, endless like a marathon



coma, comatose

Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS
Lyrics:

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose Ego, loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow



comedy, comical

Lyrics: Strapped to the table with suits from the Shelter shop Comic celebrity takes a back seat

Comedy - SHACK (1999)
Lyrics: Oh the awful title belies the quality Of this unusual comedy

Incomplete - ALANIS MORISSETTE (LP Flavors of Entanglement, 2008)
Lyrics: I will gather my wounds forge the end of tragic comedy

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: Toute la comédie des amours Sur cet air qui va toujours

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

Lyrics: We need the ecstasy, the jealousy, the comedy of love Like the Cary Grants and Kellys once before

To The End (La Comedie) - BLUR et FRANCOISE HARDY (single, 1995)
Lyrics: La comédie du grand amour Vous ne me ferez pas l'injure de la jouer, jusqu'au bout

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
Lyrics: You're a rhapsody, a comedy You're a symphony and a play



comet

The Whole Of The Moon - THE WATERBOYS 
Lyrics: you came like a comet

With A Little Luck - WINGS
Lyrics: With a little love we could shake it up Don't you feel the comet exploding?



cosmic

Cosmic Girl - JAMIROQUAI
Lyrics: 

I.O.U. Love - SIX BY SEVEN (LP The Way I Feel Today, 2002) 
Lyrics: You are the atom that started life You are the glue of the universe Every thousand years I've learned to take a breath You are cosmic and I love you

Starman - DAVID BOWIE
Lyrics:



cosmopolitan

Perfect Skin - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS
Lyrics: she’s sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan



crater

The Eve Of The War - JEFF WAYNE feat. RICHARD BURTON & JUSTIN HAYWARD (1978)
Lyrics: Then came the night the first missile approached Earth. It was thought to be an ordinary falling star, but the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common, and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there



crisis

Broken Land - THE ADVENTURES
Lyrics: his own life’s crisis pales

Presidential Suite - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
Lyrics: another Cuban cigar crisis



criteria

Lyrics: The speakers blasting clear and loud The way you dance is our criteria

Where Is The Love? - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (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



critical

I Don’t Need No Doctor - W.A.S.P. 
Lyrics: he put me on the critical list



critique

On eBay - CUMBAWAMBA (LP Un, 2004)
Lyrics: In old Baghdad, they're dusting off the antiques (sad, so sad) It's the fourteenth Guernica we've had this week (sad, so sad) I got twenty-five dollars for a Persian vase (sad, so sad) Hold the critique, I think I'll go large (sad, so sad)



criticize

Cannonball - SUPERTRAMP   
Lyrics: You're telling lies, so don't you criticize

Criticize - ALEXANDER O'NEAL
Lyrics

Don’t Bring Me Down - THE ANIMALS
Lyrics:

Don't Let It Rain On My Parade - THE ICICLE WORKS
Lyrics: I beg of you don't leave too late Don't criticise if you cannot participate

Goodbye - AIR SUPPLY 
Lyrics: I never criticize

Jordan The Comeback - PREFAB SPROUT
Lyrics: you should be slow to criticize

School - SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:



crocodile

Buffalo Stance - NENEH CHERRY
Lyrics: Who's that gigolo on the street With his hands in his pockets and his crocodile feet?



crown

A Fine Fine Day - TONY CAREY (1984)
And he took off his fedora, stuck his fingers in the crown

Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse - JIMMY HELMS (1974)
Lyrics: And I don't intend to lose my crown But every time I look at you And the beautiful things you do Every single nerve in my body says hold it down

Hit Parade - BOOTH & THE BAD ANGEL (1996)
Lyrics: Awake bear the mark and wear the crown of thorns Awake build me up and knock me down

King Without A Crown - ABC (1987)

Learning To Fly - TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
Lyrics: break your heart steal your crown

Maybe - BRAINSTROM 
Lyrics: my Kingdom, my crown

Slip Slidin' Away- PAUL SIMON 
Lyrics: I know a man, he came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown

The Great Pretender - THE PLATTERS 
Lyrics: I'm wearing my heart like a crown



crystal

A View To A Kill - DURAN DURAN
Lyrics: the first crystal tears

Lyrics: But now from way up here, it's crystal clear That now I'm in a whole new world with you

Lyrics: Winter's city side, crystal bits of snowflakes All around my head and in the wind

Can I Play With Madness - IRON MAIDEN (1988)
Lyrics: the prophet stared at his crystal ball

Crystal - NEW ORDER (single, 2001)
Lyrics:

Crystal Frontier - CALEXICO
Lyrics

Dreams - FLEETWOOD MAC
Lyrics:

In The Summer - BILL PRITCHARD 
Lyrics: you trusted crystal accents

Precious Little Diamond - FOX THE FOX
Lyrics: Precious little, precious little diamond I leave it all to you Precious little diamond Crystallizing you

Venus - SHOCKING BLUE
Lyrics: her weapons were her crystal eyes

Up On The Catwalk - SIMPLE MINDS (1984)
Lyrics: I will be there Tonight, under the crystal light I'll tell you everything I need

Wasteland - MISSION
Lyrics: there’s a crystal view from my window



(motor)cycle, (bi)cycle

Indian Summer - POCO

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PRECHERS (1992)

Nutbush City Limits - IKE & TINA TURNER (1973)
Lyrics: Twenty-five was the speed limit Motorcycle not allowed in it You go to the store on Fridays You go to church on Sundays

This Charming Man - THE SMITHS
Lyrics: Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate Will nature make a man of me yet?

You Know What To Do - CARLY SIMON
Lyrics: I hear your motorcycle roar You pull up short outside my door



cyclon

Could It Be Magic? - BARRY MANILOW (1973)
Lyrics: Spirit move me, every time I'm near you Whirling like a cyclone in my mind Sweet Melissa, angel of my lifetime Answer to all answers I can find



cylinder

The Eve Of The War - JEFF WAYNE feat. RICHARD BURTON & JUSTIN HAYWARD (1978)
Lyrics: A cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot, and with faint sounds of movement coming from within.



cymbal

Poison Arrow - ABC (1982)
Lyrics: no rhythm in cymbals



cynical

Alcoholic - STARSAILOR (2001)
Lyrics: and the cynics won't get in your way

Andromeda Heights - PREFAB SPROUT (1997)
Lyrics: Folks in the valley will look up and say 'You've finally built it, can we come and stay?' And cynics will marvel and say, 'we confess There were times when we thought it was just an address.'

Annie Get Your Gun - SQUEEZE
Lyrics: He's not into miracles Sees life all too cynical The cat has got his tongue Now she bangs on his drum

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 - THE SUNDAYS
Lyrics: It's that little souvenir of a colorful year Which makes me smile inside So I cynically, cynically say the world is that way

Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:

Millennium - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics:

Mistake No. 3 - CULTURE CLUB
Lyrics: It's strange how much it changes how they want to know How cynical are people That's where children go Dragged into a conversation they can't hold

Money Go Round - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Lyrics:

New Song - HOWARD JONES
Lyrics: I don't wanna be hip and cool I don't wanna play by the rules Not under the thumb of the cynical few Or laden down by the doom crew

Something Beautiful - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics: You can't manufacture a miracle The silence was pitiful that day And love is getting too cynical Passion's just physical these days

Lyrics: I see a clinic full of cynics Who want to twist the people's wrist


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