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

I'll See You In My Dreams - GIANT (LP Last Of The Runaways, 1989)

Lyrics: Gone, the voice that used to fill the room is all but gone An echo of a perfect love that ended wrong

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

Midnight Summer Dream -  THE STRANGLERS (LP Feline, 1983)
Lyrics: I don't remember much at all But his words were echoing

Never Enough - LOREN ALLRED (OST The Greatest Showman, 2017)

Lyrics: You set off a dream in me Getting louder now Can you hear it echoing?

Outside Looking In - DREAM SEQUENCE (single, 1982)

Lyrics: voices that echo to the darkness

Perfect Strangers - DEEP PURPLE (LP Perfect Strangers, 1984)
Lyrics: I am the echo of your mind... I am returning the echo of a point in time And distant faces shine

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echo

Pornography - THE CURE (1982)
Lyrics: An image of the queen echoes 'round the sweating bed

Say It Again - SANTANA (1985)

Lyrics: I hear the echoes in my mind They're calling to me all the time

Seventh Stranger - DURAN DURAN
Lyrics: echoes growing in the heart of twilight

Soldier Of Fortune - DEEP PURPLE
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Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
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Stairway To Heaven - LED ZEPPELIN
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Supreme - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics: echoes

Tears From The Moon - CONJURE ONE feat. SINEAD O'CONNOR

Lyrics: And all the things I should have said Echo now, inside my head

Terra Titanic - PETER SCHILLING

Lyrics: Das Radar hat's vorausgeseh'n Das Echolot hat gewarnt

The House Is Haunted - MARC ALMOND & THE WILLING SINNERS (1985)

Lyrics: The house is haunted By the echo of your last goodbye

The Living Years - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
Lyrics: I think I caught his spirit Later that same year I'm sure I heard his echo In my baby's new born tears

The Shadow Of Your Smile - TONY BENNETT
Lyrics: Now I'll remember many a day And many a lonely mile The echo of a piper's song The shadow of a smile

The Spirit Of Radio - RUSH (1980)
Lyrics: For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall The concert hall And echoes with the sound of salesmen

There Is An End - THE GREENHORNES feat. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
Lyrics: Words disappear Words weren't so clear Only echoes passing through the night

Three Imaginary Boys - THE CURE
Lyrics: Slip in through the door Hear my heart beat in the hallway Echoes 'round and 'round inside my head

Time Passages - AL STEWART (1978)

Lyrics: Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn

Town Called Malice - THE JAM
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Turn The Page - BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND (1973)
Lyrics: Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said

What You Waiting For - GWEN STEFANI

Lyrics: Like an echo pedal, you're repeating yourself

Your Latest Trick - DIRE STRAITS
Lyrics: echoes roars dinosaurs

eclectic

Hello Again - THE CARS (LP Heartbeat City, 1984)

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
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Total Eclipse - KLAUS NOMI
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Total Eclipse Of The Heart - BONNIE TYLER
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You’re So Vain - CARLY SIMON

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ecology, ecological

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - MARVIN GAYE

Lyrics: 

Sweet Harmony - THE BELOVED

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economy

Ping Pong - STEREOLAB
Lyrics:

The River - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP The River, 1980)

Lyrics: But lately, there ain't been much work On account of the economy

ecstasy

Baby Be Mine - MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics: we can share this ecstasy

Between The Sheets - THE ISLEY BROTHERS (LP Between The Sheets, 1983)

Lyrics: Hey, girl, what's your fantasy? I'll take you there to that ecstasy

Breakthrough - QUEEN
Lyrics: I wanna rush headlong into this ecstasy

Cosmic Girl - JAMIROQUAI

Lyrics: She's just a cosmic girl Oh, yeah From another galaxy My heart's at zero gravity She's from a cosmic world Putting me in ecstasy Transmitting on my frequency

Dance Of The Bad Angels - BOOTH & THE BAD ANGEL (LP Booth & The Bad Angel, 1996)

Lyrics:  God is love, god is love and her lover I'll be I long to leave the world in ecstacy

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: Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive And the world, I'll turn it inside out, yeah I'm floatin' around in ecstasy

Fantasy - EARTH WIND & FIRE
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Groovin' - THE YOUNG RASCALS
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I Love The Night (The Ecstasy Of Flight) - CHRIS DE BURGH
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I Want You Tonight - PABLO CRUISE

Lyrics: Is there no way of fighting this feeling inside Where ecstasy lives, but sanity dies?

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

I'll Give You Everything - TOPPER HEADON feat. JIMMY HELMS (1986)

Lyrics: I'll give you ecstacy

Innocent Love - SANDRA

Lyrics: I won't give up myself in luxury Don't wanna let him drown my ecstasy

Music & Lights - IMAGINATION
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Naked In The Rain - BLUE PEARL
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New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS

Lyrics: She's the one in front of me, siren and the ecstasy

Now & Forever - CAROLE KING (1993)

Lyrics: Now and forever You are a part of me And the memory cuts like a knife Didn't we find the ecstasy?

One Night In Bangkok - MURRAY HEAD (OST Chess, 1984)

Lyrics: One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy

Rasputin - BONEY M (1978)

Lyrics: He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire

Rent - PET SHOP BOYS
Lyrics: And look at the two of us in sympathy And sometimes ecstasy

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

Sometimes - ERASURE
Lyrics: as we fall in ecstasy

Sounds Like A Melody - ALPHAVILLE (LP Forever Young, 1984)

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

Street Player - CHICAGO
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There’s Nothing Like This - OMAR
Lyrics: ecstasy the word of the night

Thinking Of You - SISTER SLEDGE

Lyrics: I'm thinking of you and the things you do to me That makes me love you, now I'm living in ecstasy

To All The Men I've Loved Before - SHIRLEY BASSEY
Lyrics: who filled my nights with ecstasy

Touch My Heart - DANUTA
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You’re A Woman - BAD BOYS BLUE (1985)
Lyrics: It can't go wrong if you agree Soon two hearts will beat in ecstasy

The Way You Make Me Feel - MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics: just hold me baby and I'm in ecstasy

One Night In Bangkok - MURRAY HEAD

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ego(maniac)

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

Lyrics:  Egomaniacs control the self-righteous

Die Another Day - MADONNA (OST Die Another Day, 2002)
Lyrics: I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now

Ghostdancing - SIMPLE MINDS
Lyrics: shattered egos

I Am - ARMY OF LOVERS (1993)

Lyrics: You're so selfish You son of a... Egomaniac

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

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PRECHERS (1992)

Lyrics: Living life like a comatose Ego, loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

My Maudlin Career - CAMERA OBSCURA (2009)

Lyrics: Your pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego I promise not to abandon you, please let me go

Peek A Boo - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
flaccid ego in your hand

The Tunnel Of Love - FUN BOY THREE (LP Waiting, 1983)

Lyrics: Consequences, altered cases Broken noses, altered faces My ego altered, altered egos Wherever I go, so does me go

Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE

electric

Annie Get Your Gun - SQUEEZE

Lyrics: What's that she's playing? (Annie, get your gun) What's that she's taking? (The song has to be sung) She's gone electric (Annie, wipe them out)

Are Friends Electric - TUBEWAY ARMY (1979)

Lyrics: You know I hate to ask But are 'friends' electric? Only mine's broke down And now I've no one to love

Auberge - CHRIS REA

Lyrics: There's a sudden itch, an electric twitch Sometimes I swear this body's got a mind of it's own

Birdhouse In Your Soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 
Lyrics: electrical

Body Rock - MARIA VIDAL (1984)

Lyrics: Means you do it like you feel it Body shock Turns the beat electric

Bright Idea - ORSON

Lyrics: Will I learn to regret it, or should I forget it? Whatever this is- it feels electric

Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) - BILLY OCEAN (LP Suddenly, 1984)

Lyrics: Electric eyes that you can't ignore And passion burns you like never before

Electric Υouth - DEBBIE GIBSON (LP Electric Youth, 1989)
Lyrics: Electric youth, feel the power, you see the energy

Electricity - OMD
Lyrics: Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery Electric blue for me Never more to be free Electricity

First Time - ROBIN BECK
Lyrics: electricity flows like the very first kiss

Happy When It Rains - JESUS & MARY CHAIN
Lyrics: plug into her electric cool

Heat Of Stone - DAVID A. STEWART

Lyrics: Two weeks in ElectricLady Land Two weeks and that's all for me

Heaven In My Hands - LEVEL 42
Lyrics: it feels electric to me

Hello Again - THE CARS (LP Heartbeat City, 1984)

Lyrics: you want to feel electric

Hold On To Love - JON ANDERSON

Human Nature - MICHAEL JACKSON 
Lyrics: electric eyes are everywhere

Ich Steh Auf Licht - MUENCHENER FREIHEIT 
Lyrics: elektrisches licht

Like The Way I Do - MELISSA ETHERIDGE
Lyrics: electrify

Lola - KINKS
Lyrics; under electrician candle light

Mellow Yellow - DONOVAN 
Lyrics: electrical banana

New Religion - DURAN DURAN (1982)
Lyrics: sitting down electric chair

Pornography - THE CURE (1982)
Lyrics: We all look so perfect as we all fall down in an electric glare

Rhythm Of The Night - DeBARGE
Lyrics: electric stars

Steppin’ Out - JOE JACKSON (1982)
Lyrics: electricity so fine

Together In Electric Dreams - PHIL OAKEY & GIORGIO MORODER

Lyrics: We'll always be together, Together in electric dreams

You May Be Right - BILLY JOEL
Lyrics: alone in your electric chair

You, Me &  World War Three - GAVIN FRIDAY (1995)

Lyrics: We're 'a to b' and back again A sort of funky electrocution Trigger happy and shoot to kill What a honeymoon in hell!

electron(ic)

Jukebox Babe - ALAN VEGA (LP Alan Vega, 1980)

Lyrics: The St Francis Street electron war Jukebox baby playing number four Avenging angel feeding the poor

Spaceman - BABYLON ZOO (1996)

Lyrics: Decimation, different races fall Electronic information tampers with your soul

elephant

Dear Jessie - MADONNA
Lyrics: pink elephants and lemonade

The Great Beyond - REM
Lyrics: I’m pushing an elephant up the stairs

Jackie - SCOTT WALKER

Lyrics: And though pink elephants I'd see Though I'd be drunk as I could be

elliptical

1901 - PHOENIX

Lyrics: Counting all different ideas, driftin' away Past and present, they don't matter, now the future's sorted out Watch her moving in elliptical patterns

embryo (έμβρυο)

I Am Woman - HELEN REDDY (LP I Am Woman, 1972)

Lyrics: I am woman watch me grow See me standing toe to toe As I spread my lovin' arms across the land But I'm still an embryo With a long, long way to go Until I make my brother understand

emerald (σμαράγδι)

Jolene - DOLLY PARTON (single, 1973 / LP Jolene, 1974)

Lyrics: Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your smile is like a breath of spring

encyclopedia (εγκυκλοπαίδεια)

Love Is Psychedelic (Bob Sinclar Mix) - FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE (single, 2001)

Lyrics: I was looking at this landscape... Wow!!! I'd only seen it on TV Or in some encyclopedia

Endymion (Ενδυμίωνας)
Endymion is regarded personification of both the sundown & eternal beauty

Jocelyn Square - LOVE & MONEY (LP Strange Kind Of Love, 1988)
Lyrics: All the memories that flower and blossom In this pale Endymion hour They paint a picture of you

energy

Bodies - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (2009)

Lyrics: UK and entropy I feel like it's fucking me Wanna feed off the energy Love living like a deity

Electric Υouth - DEBBIE GIBSON (LP Electric Youth, 1989)
Lyrics: Electric youth, feel the power, you see the energy

Electricity - OMD
Lyrics: Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery electric blue for me Never more to be free, the final source of energy

Faded Flowers - SHRIEKBACK

Lyrics: A veil of cloud Correct as energy

Feel So High - DES'REE

Funky Town - LIPPS, Inc., PSEUDO ECHO
Lyrics: keep me groovin’ with some energy

Give Me One Reason - TRACY CHAPMAN (1996)

Hypnotised - SIMPLE MINDS

In The Evening - SHERYL LEE RALPH (1984)

Infected - THE THE
I’ve got too much energy

Jive Talkin' - BEE GEES 

Lyrics: Oh, my child, you got so much You gonna take away my energy

Know What You Know - CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT (1987)

Lyrics: It's imposible to create a one-way loving state And this relationship darlin' doesnt rare You try too hard to release all your excess energy

Lover Come Back To Me - DEAD OR ALIVE

Nights In White Satin - THE MOODY BLUES (1967)

Lyrics: Breathe deep the gathering gloom Watch lights fade from every room Bedsitter people look back and lament Another day's useless energy spent

The Power Of Love - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

The Spirit Of Radio - RUSH (1980)
Lyrics: Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy

Touch Me (All Night Long) - CATHY DENNIS

Lyrics: A new recreation To channel all this energy Let's solve the equation I need to keep you close to me

Victory - KOOL & THE GANG
release that energy

We Are The People - EMPIRE OF THE SUN

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - INFORMATION SOCIETY
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enigma

Cowboy Dreams - PREFAB SPROUT
Lyrics: I wanna be the guy who wears the white hat Then rides across the plain I'm gonna be your

enigmatic stranger Honey, you are looking at your Shane

Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmh To Me) - AMANDA LEAR

Lyrics: For me, you are an enigma For me, you really are a mystery

entropy

Bodies - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (2009)

Lyrics: UK and entropy I feel like it's fucking me Wanna feed off the energy Love living like a deity

ephemeral

Feel Good Inc. - GORILLAZ (2005)

Lyrics: You got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style A melancholy town where we never smile

epic

Epic - FAITH NO MORE (1990)

Lyrics: 

episode

I'll Be Around - THE SPINNERS (1972)

Lyrics: This is our fork in the road Love's last episode There's nowhere to go, oh no You made your choice

Signed On My Tattoo - ARMY OF LOVERS feat. GRAVITONS (2013)

Lyrics: Every episode it’s another sequel Since you got me wrapped around your hand, can I be your equal?

epoch

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

Lyrics: Look at me, proud of being Proud of being seventeen Locked in epoch and a smile Soft from the school

erotic

Erotica - MADONNA

Lyrics: 

Fallen - LAUREN WOOD (OST Pretty Woman, 1990)

Lyrics: And I was not looking Was content to remain And it's erotic to be Back in the game

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

Euphoria - LOREEN



exorcism

Funhouse - P!NK

exotic

Come Fly With Me - FRANK SINATRA

Lyrics: Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar in far Bombay

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