Τρίτη 7 Απριλίου 2026

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z


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


T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z




Lyrics: I have a talent, a wonderful thing 'Cause everyone listens when I start to sing

Lyrics: You were a talented child



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technique

Kissing With Confidence - WILL POWERS (1983)
Lyrics: 

Sway (Quien Sera) - DEAN MARTIN (1954)
Lyrics: Other dancers may be on the floor Dear, but my eyes will see only you Only you have the magic technique When we sway, I go weak



technological

Mr. Roboto - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here1983)
Lyrics: The problem's plain to see Too much technology Machines to save our lives Machines dehumanize

Prince Of Peace - GALLIANO     
Lyrics: Is there any way out or do they just drop it Sellin' twisted technology for those who ain't got it

Road To Hell - CHRIS REA
Lyrics:

She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY
Lyrics:

Tech-No-Logical World - PATRICK COWLEY feat. PAUL PARKER

Video Killed The Radio Star - BUGGLES
Lyrics: They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the problems you could see

Virtual Insanity - JAMIROQUAI (LP Travelling Without Moving, 1996)
Lyrics: Futures made of virtual insanity Now, always seem to be governed by this love we have For useless twisting of our new technology Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground



telegram

Loving The Alien - DAVID BOWIE (LP Tonight1984)
Lyrics: Watching them come and go The Templars and the Saracens They're travelling the holy land Opening telegrams

Union Of The Snake - DURAN DURAN (1983)
Lyrics: telegram force & ready



telegraph

Missing You - JOHN WAITE
Lyrics:

Telegraph - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
Lyrics:

Telegraph Road - DIRE STRAITS
Lyrics:



telepathy

Sexual Healing - MARVIN GAYE
Lyrics: 

Shake You Down - GREGORY ABBOTT  
Lyrics: you picked up on my telepathy



telephone

Bad Connection - YAZOO (1982)
Lyrics: Can you hear me? Can you hear me at all? Gotta get the operator make a telephone call And if I write a letter it won't get there on time I'll only reach you baby on the telephone line

Cardiac Arrest - MADNESS
Lyrics: His mind wanders to the office, his telephone, desk and chair He's been happy with the company, they've treated him real fair

City Lights - WILLIAM PITT (1986)
LyricsTelephone Off the line What's on TV

Do You Believe In Shame - DURAN DURAN     
Lyrics: a line of static on my telephone

Dolce Vita - RYAN PARIS (1983)
Lyrics: I'm so alone in the Dolce Vita Oh baby, telephone This magic's gone in the Dolce Vita

Every Little Step I Take - BOBBY BROWN 
Lyrics: listening for the telephone

For A Friend - THE COMMUNARDS   
Lyrics: as I put down the telephone

Funny How Love Is  - FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS         
Lyrics: or call me on the phone

Hanna Hanna - CHINA CRISIS (1984)
Lyrics: Tape recorder and telephone Conversations in pyramids alone

Magic Moments - PERRY COMO (1957)
Lyrics: The telephone call that tied up the line For hours and hours

My Girl - MADNESS
Lyrics: My girl's mad at me Been on the telephone for an hour We hardly said a word I tried and tried but I could not be heard

Nothing Ever Happens - DEL AMITRI (1989)
LyricsTelephone exchanges click while there's nobody there

The Harder I Try - BROTHER BEYOND 
Lyrics: I call you on the telephone

Sex Talk - T’PAU        
Lyrics: I take what I can on the telephone

So Far Away - DIRE STRAITS  
Lyrics: I’m tired of making out on the telephone

Start Of The Breakdown - TEARS FOR FEARS
Lyrics: 

State Of The Nation - INDUSTRY (EP Industry, 1983)
Lyrics: Don't you worry about the situation A message from the telephone They out there fighting for the state of the nation

Suedehead - MORRISSEY     
Lyrics: why do you telephone

Telephone Line - ELO
Lyrics: 

Tonight’s The Night - ROD STEWART
Lyrics: 

We Are Detective - THOMPSON TWINS (1983)
Lyrics: Someone is on our tail We think they're opening up our morning mail And now each time the telephone rings We think of frightening things

You Can't Change That - RAYDIO (1979)
Lyrics: You can change your telephone number And you can change your address too But you can't stop me from loving you



telephoto

Generation Sex - THE DIVINE COMEDY (1998)
Lyrics: Lovers watch their backs As hacks In macs Take snaps Through telephoto lenses Chase Mercedes-Benzes through the night A mourning nation weeps And wails



telescope

Dumb - BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
Lyrics: 

Grace - SUPERGRASS        
Lyrics: then you showed me Mars through your t.

Proclaim Your Joy - MARK EITZEL (2001)
Lyrics: Live their lives staring Down through telescopes

Save Me - EMBRACE (2000)
Lyrics: You're looking down that telescope From the only end you know



theatre

Private Life - THE PRETENDERS (1980), GRACE JONES (1980)
Lyrics: J'en ai marre with your theatrics; your acting's a drag It's ok on TV, but you can turn it off

Shame - EURYTHMICS (1987 / At the races and the theatre)
Lyrics: Shame! At the Lido and the opera Shame! At the races and the theatre

Lady Is A Tramp - LENA HORNE, FRANK SINATRA
Lyrics: She gets too hungry for dinner at eight She likes the theatre and never comes late



theme

China In Your Hand - T’PAU
Lyrics: it was the theme she had on a scheme

Thank You My Love - IMAGINATION
Lyrics: 



theory

Experiment IV - KATE BUSH
Lyrics: We only know in theory what we are doing

There's No Magic To It - PETER KINGSBERY (1995)
Lyrics: You got your theories You got your beliefs How can I live Without any

To The Moon & Back - SAVAGE GARDEN (1996)  
Lyrics: She's taking her time, making up the reasons To justify all the hurt inside Guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes Everyone's got a theory about the bitter one



therapy
 
First Six Months Of Love - MICHELLE GUREVICH
Lyrics: Before begin the dissections Before the therapy sessions

Jesus Of Suburbia - GREEN DAY
Lyrics: 

Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (1984)
Lyrics: She looks like Eva Marie Saint In "On the Waterfront" She says all she needs is therapy Yes, all you need is love is all you need



thermometer

Too Darn Hot - ERASURE (C. Porter)  
Lyrics: when the thermometer goes way up



thermostat

Hard To Beat - HARD FI (2005)
Lyrics: You had a dirty look, you caught me on your hook Turn up the thermostat, I want to see you sweat



throne

Crusader - CHRIS DE BURGH (LP Crusader1979)
Lyrics: "Tell me what to do", said the king upon his throne "but speak to me in whispers for we are not alone

Express Yourself - MADONNA   
Lyrics: like a queen on a throne

Goodbye Stranger - SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics: 

The Hunter - DIDO
Lyrics: 



thyme

Scarborough Fair - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Lyrics: 



tiger

Lyrics: She said I was the tiger she wanted to tame

Don't Stop Me Now - QUEEN
Lyrics: I'm a shootin' star, leapin' through the sky like a tiger Defyin' the laws of gravity



titan

Seven Seas Of Rhye - QUEEN    
Lyrics: I challenge the mighty titans & his troubadours



tomb

Celebrate Youth - RICK SPRINGFIELD   
Lyrics: from the womb to the tomb

Hymn To Her - THE PRETENDERS   
Lyrics: from the womb to the tomb

Left In The Dark - BARBRA STREISAND (1984)
Lyrics: There's been no reason to move It's been as still as a tomb I needed you oh so badly tonight But I guess you had better things to do

The pusher-STEPPENWOLF    
Lyrics: tombstone

Thriller-M. JACKSON  
Lyrics: grizzly ghouls from every tomb...

Walk like an Egyptian-BANGLES    
Lyrics: All the old paintings on the tomb

Walking In Memphis - MARC KOHN (LP Walking In Memphis1991)
Lyrics: Now security they did not see him They just hovered around his tomb



tone

Busy Line - PETER SKELLERN    
Lyrics: busy tone

Red Lights - CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT (1987)
Lyrics: Calling out the word Sparing vocal tones that hardly can be heard

My Baby Just Cares For Me - NINA SIMONE 
Lyrics: 

Nothing Has Been Proved - DUSTY
Lyrics: 



topic

I Beg Your Pardon - KON KAN (1988)
Lyrics: And when we're alone, seems there's nothing to say I bring up the topic you push it away

Let's Talk About Sex - SALT-N-PEPA
Lyrics: 



toxic

Lyrics: She is re-creation She, intoxicated by thee

Desert Rose - STING          
Lyrics: This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her love

Emotions - MARIAH CAREY       
Lyrics: I'm in love, I'm alive Intoxicated, flyin' high

Give It To Me Baby - RICK JAMES   
Lyrics: You say I'm so crazy Coming home intoxicated I said I just wanna love ya

High On You - SURVIVOR   
Lyrics: To find a heart so true Such complete intoxication

Love’s Strange Ways - CHRIS REA (1983)
Lyrics: Drowning in her laughter as you go Intoxicating laughter that spins you high and low

Toxic - BRITNEY SPEARS
Lyrics: [Chorus] With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride You're toxic, I'm slippin' under With a taste of a poison paradise I'm addicted to you Don't you know that you're toxic? And I love what you do Don't you know that you're toxic?



tragedy (τραγωδία)

Ant Rap - ADAM & THE ANTS (LP Prince Charming, 1981)
Lyrics: about standing up and saying that it's a tragedy and such old hat

Better Days - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP Lucky Town, 1992)
Lyrics: a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure, don't make much for tragedy

Change Your Mind - THE KILLERS (LP Hot Fuss, 2004)
Lyrics: Racy days help me through the hopeless haze But my, oh, my Tragic eyes, I can't even recognize myself Behind

China Girl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Let's Dance, 1983) 
Lyrics: I'm feeling tragic like I'm Marlon Brando

Close My Eyes Forever - LITA FORD & OZZY OSBOURNE (LP Lita, 1988) 
Lyrics: What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy?

Comedy - SHACK (single, 1999)
Lyrics: Oh the awful title belies the quality Of this unusual comedy It's the same for you and me And the days and nights you remembered me The walls I never seen Come to me It's an awful tragedy

Could You Be The One? - STEREOPHONICS (LP Keep Calm & Curry On, 2009)
Lyrics: every little thing you do is tragically hip

Epic - FAITH NO MORE (LP The Real Thing, 1989) 
Lyrics: It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - THE POLICE (LP Ghost In The Machine, 1981) 
Lyrics: even though my life before was tragic

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

Faded Flowers - SHRIEKBACK (LP Oil & Gold, 1985) 
Lyrics: These hands I kiss Tragic as anything

Fool (If You Think It’s Over) - CHRIS REA (LP Whatever Happened To Benny Santini? 1978) 
Lyrics: Miss Teenage Dream, such a tragic scene

Girl I'm Gonna Miss You - MILLI VANILLI (LP All Or Nothing, 1988) 
Lyrics: It's a tragedy for me to see the dream is over

Here Comes The Rain Again - EURYTHMICS (LP Touch, 1983) 
Lyrics: Here comes the rain again, raining in my head like a tragedy

I Wish - R KELLY (LP TP-2.com, 2000)
Lyrics: Your family called the morning of a tragic end Damn, my condolences

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

It's A Hit - RILO KILEY (LP More Adventurous, 2004)
Lyrics: any idiot can play Greek for a day and join a sorority or write a tragedy

Jeanny - FALCO (1985)
Lyrics: Die jüngste Veröffentlichung der lokalen Polizei-Behörde berichtet von einem weiteren tragischen Fall

Jesus Of Suburbia - GREEN DAY (LP Bullet In A Bible, 2005) 
Lyrics: To live, and not to breathe Is to die, in tragedy

Lost In Music - SISTER SLEDGE (LP We Are Family, 1979) 
Lyrics: Responsibility to me is a tragedy

Love Foolosophy - JAMIROQUAI (LP A Funk Odyssey, 2001) 
Lyrics: Seems so true, all the lies you're telling Tragically compelling

Maria - MEN AT WORK (LP Two Heart, 1985)
Lyrics: for this was to be a tragedy for our Maria

Mr. Crowley - OZZY OSBOURNE (LP Blizzard Of Oz, 1980) 
Lyrics: Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic

Miss Jackson - PANIC! AT THE DISCO feat. LOLO (LP Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, 2013)
Lyrics: There's something beautiful and tragic in the fallout

O Baby - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (LP The Rapture, 1995)
Lyrics: Thought it would end in tragedy

Out Of Time Man - MANO NEGRA (LP King Of Bongo, 1991)
Lyrics: It's a timing tragedy

Permanent Tears - EAGLE EYE CHERRY (LP Desireless, 1997) 
Lyrics: She's something of a tragedy stands in the shade of despair

Private Life - THE PRETENDERS (1980), GRACE JONES (1980)
Lyrics: Your marriage is a tragedy, but it's not my concern I'm very superficial, I hate everything official

Sally's Song - AMY LEE (LP Nightmare Revisited, 2008)
Lyrics: I sense there's something in the wind that feels like tragedy's at hand

Simple Creed - LIVE feat. TRICKY (single, 2001) 
Lyrics: Now, nobody's takin' your candy, you just keep on livin' this tragedy

Skin - RAG 'N' BONE MAN (LP Human, 2017) 
Lyrics: We bleed ourselves in vain, how tragic is this game?

Song To Say Goodbye - PLACEBO (LP Meds, 2006) 
Lyrics: You are one of god's mistakes. you crying, tragic waste of skin

Lyrics: give me more tragedy, more harmony and fantasy, my love

Sweet Little Mystery - WET WET WET (LP Popped In Souled Out, 1987) 
Lyrics: don't think it is tragic, hey hey hey

Tears Of Pearls - SAVAGE GARDEN (LP Savage Garden, 1997) 
Lyrics: Is love really the tragedy the way you might describe

Through The Wire - KANYE WEST (2003)
Lyrics: But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph (Uh-huh! Yeah!) Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire (Woo!)

Tragedy - MARC ANTHONY (LP Mended, 2002)

Tragedy - THE BEE GEES (LP Spirits Having Flown, 1979) 

Tragedy - JOHN HUNTER (LP Famous At Night, 1984)

Tragedy & Mystery - CHINA CRISIS (LP Working With Fire & Steel, 1983)

When Did Your Heart Go Missing - ROONEY (LP Calling The World, 2007) 
Lyrics: This doesn't have to end in tragedy



trauma (τραύμα)

Where Is The Love? - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (2003)
Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma



treasure (θησαυρός)

All I Want Is You - U2
Lyrics:

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - AEROSMITH
Lyrics: 

The Reflex - DURAN DURAN
Lyrics:



trigonometry (τριγωνομετρία)

Wonderful World - SAM COOKE (1960)
Lyrics: Don't know much about geography Don't know much trigonometry Don't know much about algebra Don't know what a slide rule is for



triumph

Here's My Heart - PAT BENATAR (OST Metropolis, 1984)
Lyrics: So true love triumphs once again It always makes it in the end And if you let the heart run free It will return faithfully

Here's To You - JOAN BAEZ (OST Sacco & Vanzetti, 1971)
Lyrics: Here's to you, Nicola and Bart Rest forever here in our hearts The last and final moment is yours That agony is your triumph

Through The Wire - KANYE WEST (2003)
Lyrics: But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph (Uh-huh! Yeah!) Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire (Woo!)



tropical

Don’t Look Back - FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS (1989)
Lyrics: never had a holiday in the tropical sun

Foreign Affair - MIKE OLDFIELD (1984)
Lyrics: on a tropical beach

Kokomo - THE BEACH BOYS (OST Cocktail1988)
Lyrics: Cocktails and moonlit nights That dreamy look in your eye Give me a tropical contact high Way down in Kokomo

La Isla Bonita - MADONNA
Lyrics: Tropical the island breeze, all of nature wild and free

Prime Time - GERARD JOLING      
Lyrics: tropical

Tin Man - AMERICA      
Lyrics: the tropic of Sir Galahad



type

Auberge - CHRIS REA (1991)
Lyrics: You meet the silent type on a windy trail With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger

I’m That Type Of Guy - LL COOL J
Lyrics: 

Street Life - CRUSADERS feat RANDY CRAWFORD (1979)
Lyrics: 

Wherever I Lay My Hat - PAUL YOUNG   
Lyrics: I’m the type of guy


typewriter

Nothing Ever Happens - DEL AMITRI (1989)
Lyrics: Post office clerks put up signs saying 'position closed' And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats



typical

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish - THE SMITHS    
Lyrics: typical me

19 - PAUL HARDCASTLE   
Lyrics: typically 

Separate Lives - PHIL COLLINS & MARILYN MARTIN
Lyrics:

Typical Male - TINA TURNER
Lyrics:



tyrant

Cymbeline - LOREENA McKENNITT (1991)
Lyrics: Fear no more the frown o' th' great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke

16th Century Greensleeves - RAINBOW (1975)
Lyrics: Many times before The tyrant's opened up the door Then someone cries Still we close our eyes Not again



uranium  

The Dead Heart - MIDNIGHT OIL (single, 1986 / LP Diesel & Dust, 1987)
Lyrics: Mining companies Pastoral companies Uranium companies of companies of Collected companies Got more right than people Got more say than people

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - COLE PORTER, THOMPSON TWINS (LP Red Hot & Blue, 1990) Lyrics: who wants uranium to spare



utopia

Heartland - THE THE
Lyrics: Here comes another winter, of long shadows and high hopes Here comes another winter, waiting for Utopia Waiting for hell to freeze over



zone

Danger Zone - KENNY LOGGINS
Lyrics: 

The Hills - THE WEEKND (2020)
Lyrics: Your man on the road, he doin' promo You said, "Keep our business on the low-low" I'm just tryna get you out the friend zone 'Cause you look even better than the photos

The Perfect Kiss - NEW ORDER (LP Low Life, 1985)
Lyrics: playing with my pleasure zone





zoo

Lyrics: Shall I stay here at the zoo? Or should I go and change my point of view for other ugly scenes?

Drop The Boy - BROS   
Lyrics: can’t take another visit to the zoo

Maybe - BRAINSTORM (2001)
Lyrics: But then I say Maybe we could divide it in two Maybe my animals live in your zoo

Perfect Day - LOU REED
Lyrics:


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