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)
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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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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 Living Years - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
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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
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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
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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 
Lyrics: echoes

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
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

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Sweet Harmony - THE BELOVED

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economy

Ping Pong - STEREOLAB
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The River - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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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

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

Rent - PET SHOP BOYS
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Secret Rendezvous - KARYN WITE
Lyrics: a first class ticket to ecstasy

Sometimes - ERASURE
Lyrics: as we fall in ecstasy

Street Player - CHICAGO
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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
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You’re A Woman - BAD BOYS BLUE
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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

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

Lyrics:  Egomaniacs control the self-righteous

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

electric

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

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

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

Hello Again - CARS
Lyrics: you want to feel electric... (eclectic)

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 
Lyrics: electricity so fine

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Power Of Love - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

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

epic

Epic - FAITH NO MORE (1990)

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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: 

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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