Τρίτη 7 Απριλίου 2026

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - N, O

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


N, O



Lyrics: The drugs, they say, make us feel so hollow We love in vain, narcissistic and so shallow The cops and queers, to swim, you have to swallow




Narcotic - LIQUIDO (single, 1998 / LP Liquido1999)
Lyrics: And I touched your face Narcotic mind from lazed, Mary-Jane

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



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neon

Beautiful Girl - INXS (1992)
Lyrics: Now where did you find her Among the neon lights... From doorway to doorway Street corner to corner With the neon ghosts in the city

LyricsNeon on my naked skin Passing silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins

Body Rock - MARIA VIDAL (1984)
Lyrics: We come from underground Oh, stickin' together, gonna turn the world around Runnin' through the neon night With a dream inside

City Of Blinding Lights - U2 (2004)
LyricsNeon heart, dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us

Close To You - MAXI PRIEST
Lyrics: 

Cold Days, Hot Nights - MOTI SPECIAL (1985)
Lyrics: Hot nights - when you're freezing On the street in the neon lights

Crossfire - STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
Lyrics: 

Cult Of Personality - LIVING COLOUR
Lyrics: 

Don’t Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS   
Lyrics: I see neon lights

Downtown - PETULA CLARK
Lyrics: 

Election Day - ARCADIA     
Lyrics: opening eyes impale neon flickers

It's A Jungle Out There - BONNIE TYLER (1983)
Lyrics: The lonely and the lonely heart hunters The neon love life, oh, it cuts like a knife

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Under neon loneliness Motorcycle emptiness

Rainy Night In Georgia - BROOKE BENTON, GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
Lyrics: 

The Ride, Part II - CALEXICO (1998)
Lyrics: Beneath the neon hub of downtown The local hotel ghosts blow back around

Somewhere Down The Crazy River - ROBBIE ROBERTSON  
Lyrics: distant red neon

Sometimes - JAMES           
Lyrics: like a neon sign

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Lyrics: 

Spice Of Life - THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER (1983)
Lyrics: Some kinda feelin' that it's hard to deny Once the neon lights start to call

This Time I Jnow It's For Real - DONNA SUMMER   
Lyrics: to say I love I love you with a neon sign
                             
Wages Day - DEACON BLUE       
Lyrics: outside the flashing neon sign
                                       
The World We Knew - FRANK SINATRA
Lyrics: 

You Belong To The City - GLENN FREY
Lyrics: 

Lyrics: Zoom, just one look and then my heart went boom Suddenly and we were on the moon Flyin' high in a neon sky



nerve / nervous / neurotic

Bad Boy - RAY PARKER Jr.        
Lyrics: I had the nerve

Lyrics: So take me as I am This may mean you'll have to be a stronger man Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous And I'm going to extremes Tomorrow I will change and today won't mean a thing

Change - TEARS FOR FEARS      
Lyrics: I did not have the nerve

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

He's On The Phone - SAINT ETIENNE
Lyrics: It's five to twelve and she's nervous as hell With nothing to lose, it's hard to choose, it's hard to tell

I Believe - TEARS FOR FEARS
Lyrics: I could be wrong or have I hit a nerve

Life Of Surprises - PREFAB SPROUT    
Lyrics: neurotic impulse

The Living Daylights - A HA  
Lyrics: I swear my nerves are showing

Orchard Road - LEO SAYER           
Lyrics: nerve

Raspberry Beret - PRINCE     
Lyrics: she had the nerve to ask me

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

Thin Line Between Love & Hate - THE PERSUADERS  
Lyrics: you didn’t think the girl had the nerve

Twist In My Sobriety - TANITA TIKARAM (1988)
Lyrics: Half the people read the papers Read them good and well Pretty people, nervous people People have got to sell News you have to sell

When You Walk In The Room - PAUL CARRACK        
Lyrics: Baby, it's a dream come true Walking right alongside of you Wish I could tell you how much I care But I only have the nerve to stare

Where Is My Man? - EARTHA KITT (1983)
Lyrics: Is there anyone out there who has the neerrve?

Wouldn’t It Be Good - NIK KERSHAW   
Lyrics: through each and every nerve & fibre
        

                      
new

It’s Raining Men - WEATHER GIRLS  
Lyrics: have we got news for you

Rock& Roll Dreams Come Through - JIM STEINMAN 
Lyrics: there’s always something new



nitroglycerin

Maracaibo - LOUISA LOU COLOMBO   
Lyrics: nitroglycerina



nostalgic

Be My Twin - BROTHER BEYOND   
Lyrics: wrapped in sheer nostalgia

Diamonds & Rust - JOAN BAEZ (1975)
Lyrics: Now you're telling me, you're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You were so good with words And at keeping things vague

Two Horse Town - STEREO MC’s        
Lyrics: nostalgia

What A Fool Believes - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
Lyrics: 



numismatic

Radio Musicola - NIK KERSHAW   
Lyrics: why tolerate this numismatical polity



oasis

Midnight At The Oasis - MARIA MULDAUR (1973)
Lyrics:

Native Boy - ANIMAL NIGHTLIFE (1983)
Lyrics: Familiar clubs, Familiar facеs A cool pool a refreshing oasis These are the things we enjoy!

Nights Over Egypt - THE JONES GIRLS (1981)
Lyrics: Take a caravan Across the Sudan Saharan facade Is just a mirage Oasis in the sand Where life once began Under the moonlight

Winter - LOVE & MONEY (1991)
Lyrics: You could bleed this starless night Like a desert oasis



Lyrics: I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

Lyrics: The ocean is a desert with its life underground And a perfect disguise above

Lyrics: My mouth by then like cardboard Seemed to slip straight through my head So we crash-dived straightway quickly And attacked the ocean bed

Lyrics: If our love song Could fly over mountains Could laugh at the ocean Just like the films

Lyrics: The flame that keeps on burning Mend a broken heart Sail upon the ocean Two heart that beat as one

Lyrics: Tell me 'bout the ocean moving in slow motion

Always - ERASURE (LP I Say I Say I Say1994)
Lyrics: Melting the ice for me Jump into the ocean Hold back the tide; I see Your love in motion

Lyrics: I might as well get over (The blues) Just like fishing in the ocean There'll always be someone new

And We Danced - HOOTERS     
Lyrics: like a wave on the ocean

Anyone Out There - DURAN DURAN (1981)
Lyrics: My face in the mirror shows a break in time A crack in the ocean, it does not align

As - STEVIE WONDER, GEORGE MICHAEL
Lyrics: 

Atlantis - DONOVAN
Lyrics: The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean

Big Decision - THAT PETROL EMOTION 
Lyrics: you ‘d rather sail the ocean

Bones - THE KILLERS
Lyrics: 

Boys Light Up - AUSTRALIAN CRAWL
Lyrics: Later, at the party, all the MPs rave 'Bout the hummers she's been givin' and the money that they save To her, it is skin lotion, him, promotion to that Flat in Surfer's Paradise with the ocean view

Can’t stop the music-VILLAGE PEOPLE     
Lyrics: ocean, motion

Cherish - KOOL & THE GANG  
Lyrics: near the ocean shore

Chicago - GRAHAM NASH        
Lyrics: from the bottom of the ocean

The Cutter - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Lyrics: Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching Say we can, say we will Not just another drop in the ocean

Lyrics: What a journey so hard to describe Your harbour so small the ocean so wide

Everybody Plays The Fool - MAIN INGRIDIENT 
Lyrics: love runs deeper than any ocean

Everybody's Talkin' - NILSSON (LP Aerial Ballet, 1968 / OST Midnight Cowboy, 1969) 
Lyrics: Sailin' on a summer breeze And skippin' over the ocean like a stone

Every Time - MUENCHENER FREIHEIT
Lyrics: 

Faith - GEORGE MICHAEL
Lyrics: before this river becomes an ocean

Fergus Sings The Blues - DEACON BLUE  
Lyrics: I got the blue blue ocean

Foreign Affair - MIKE OLDFIELD 
Lyrics: a drop in the ocean

Great Southern Land - ICEHOUSE (1982)
Lyrics: Standing at the limit of an endless ocean Stranded like a runaway lost at sea City on a rainy day down in the harbour Watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay

Green Eyed Lady - SUGARLOAF          
Lyrics: ocean lady

Heart Of Gold - NEIL YOUNG
Lyrics: 

I Build This Garden For Us - LENNY KRAVITZ
Lyrics: 

If I Was - MIDGE URE
Lyrics: 

It’s Impossible - PERRY COMO
Lyrics: 

It’s Over - ROXETTE
Lyrics: ocean of teardrops

Just Like Heaven - THE CURE      
Lyrics: dancing in the deepest oceans

Labelled With Love - SQUEEZE
Lyrics: She crossed the ocean back home to her family But they had retired to roads that were sandy

Letter From America-PROCLAIMERS     
Lyrics: I’ve looked at the ocean

Like a baby - WHAM!         
Lyrics: I crossed the ocean

Little James - OASIS
Lyrics: 

The Look - ROXETTE  
Lyrics: she’s a miracle man loving is the ocean

Lotus - REM     
Lyrics: ocean flower aquarium

Love Is The 7th Wave - STING    
Lyrics: every ripple on the ocean

Maria - BLONDIE  
Lyrics: she’s oceans running down the drain

Martha’s Harbour - ALL ABOUT EVE  
Lyrics: you are an ocean wave my love

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - MARVIN GAYE, ROBERT PALMER     
Lyrics: oil wasted on the oceans

Moonlight Feels Right - STARBUCK
Lyrics: 

My Love - PETULA CLARK
Lyrics: 

New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS (1982)
Lyrics: She is your friend Until the ocean breaks

Northwinds - THE STRANGLERS
Lyrics: 

The Ocean - RICHARD HAWLEY
Lyrics: 

Ocean Rain - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Lyrics: 

Once In A Lifetime - TALKING HEADS    
Lyrics: the bottom of the ocean
 
One More Cup Of Coffee - BOB DYLAN   
Lyrics: your heart is like an ocean

Only Crying - KEITH MARSHALL (1982)
Lyrics: Just a raindrop in the ocean Just a simple sad emotion - only crying

Patrick, Mon Cheri - KIKI & PEARLY (1975)
Lyrics: I remember how we lay in the sun And went swimming in the warm ocean water

Poison Ivy - THE COASTERS
Lyrics: 

Pure - LIGHTNING SEEDS          
Lyrics: fresh & deep as oceans new

Red Sky - THRICE (2006)
Lyrics: I know the ocean speaks (The stars retreat behind their veil)

Rhythm Is Love - KESAIAH JONES     
Lyrics: the ocean loves the sea

Rhythm Of My Heart - ROD STEWART 
Lyrics: where the ocean meets the sky

Right Here Waiting - RICHARD MARX       
Lyrics: oceans apart

The Right Stuff - BRYAN FERRY    
Lyrics: black is the ocean

River Of People - LOVE & MONEY 
Lyrics: the bottom of my wishing well is an o. of steel

Rock The Boat - HUES CORPORATION
Lyrics: 

She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY
Lyrics: 

Ship Of Fools - WORLD PARTY     
Lyrics: drowning in the oceans of history

Sleepwalking Man - SIVERT HØYEM (2016)
Lyrics: I love the ocean too How it's painted green and blue In my recurring dreams of you

State Of The Nation - NEW ORDER      
Lyrics: You can walk, or you can run You don't have to be someone I went on a summer cruise Upon an ocean born to lose

Surfin U.S.A. - THE BEACH BOYS (1963)             
Lyrics: If everybody had ocean across the U.S.A Then everybody'd be surfin' like Californ-i-a You'd seem 'em wearing their baggy, Huarachi sandals too A bushy bushy blonde hairdo, surfin' U.S.A

Sway (Quien Sera) - DEAN MARTIN (1954)
Lyrics: When marimba rhythms start to play Dance with me, make me sway Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore Hold me close, sway me more

Take My Breath Away - BERLIN            
Lyrics: on this endless ocean

That’s The Way - CULTURE CLUB  
Lyrics: shedding tears as big as the ocean

This One - PAUL McCARTNEY         
Lyrics: the swan is gliding above the ocean

Trumpets - THE WATERBOYS
Lyrics: your life is like an ocean

The Voice - THE MOODY BLUES       
Lyrics: ocean of life

Voyage Voyage - DESIRELESS        
Lyrics: regarde l’ocean

Wait - MAGGIE REILLY (1992)
Lyrics: Do you still remember by the ocean, oh so blue? As I looked into your eyes, you said that you'd be true

The Way Of The World - TINA TURNER (1991)
Lyrics: It's the way of the world and its motion And no ocean can keep us apart

When Doves Cry - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION (1984)
Lyrics: 

When You Come Back To Me - JASON DONOVAN  
Lyrics: we’re oceans apart

Whole Of The Moon - THE WATERBOYS
Lyrics: wide oceans full of tears

Wish You Were Here - BEE GEES
Lyrics: 

You Are The Reason - CALUM SCOTT (2017)
Lyrics: I'd climb every mountain And swim every ocean Just to be with you And fix what I've broken Oh, 'cause I need you to see That you are the reason



ode

The Funeral Of Hearts - HIM
Lyrics: 

Ode To Boy - YAZOO
Lyrics: 

Ode To My Family - THE CRANBERRIES
Lyrics: 



odyssey

City of New Orleans - ARLO GUTHRIE (1972)
Lyrics: all along the south bound Odyssey



oil

Blue Jean Blues - ZZ TOP (1975)
Lyrics: I done ran into my baby And finally found my old blue jean Well, I could tell that they was mine From the oil and the gasoline

Mercy Mercy Me - ROBERT PALMER    
Lyrics: oil wasted on the oceans



opiate

For America - RED BOX    
Lyrics: Deviate to contemplate this audio visual opiate

Ideas As Opiates - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Hurting, 1983)
Lyrics: 



opium

Jackie - SCOTT WALKER
Lyrics: My name would then be handsome Jack And I'd sell boats of opium Whisky that came from Twickenham authentic queers and phony virgins

Queen Of China Town - AMANDA LEAR    
Lyrics: opium queen



optical

Undercover Agent For The Blues - TONY JOE WHITE   
Lyrics: optical illusion



orchestra

The Last Waltz - ENGELBERT HUMBERDINK
Lyrics: 

Thank You My Love - IMAGINATION (1984)
Lyrics: 

There Must Be An Angel - EURYTHMICS
Lyrics: 



orchid

Radio Orchid - FURY IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Lyrics: 



organ

Carnival - THE CARDIGANS
Lyrics: I hear sounds of lovers Barrel organs, mothers

Cloudbusting - KATE BUSH
Lyrics: I still dream of Organon



organic

The Wrong Place - HOOVERPHONIC (2021)
Lyrics: You get up 'cause you need an organic cup of tea



organized

Americanos - HOLLY JOHNSON (1989)
Lyrics: Everything's organized from crime to leisure time High schools and swimming pools



orgasm

If I Was Your Girlfriend - PRINCE
Lyrics: 



orgy

Last Years Man - LEONARD COHEN
Lyrics: 



orphan

The Sound Of Crying - PREFAB SPROUT (LP A Life Of Surprises: The Best of... 1992)
Lyrics: Another orphan baby in a failed uprising Another real bum note

You Can Call Me Al - PAUL SIMON (1986)
Lyrics: Of cattle in the marketplace Scatterlings and orphanages He looks around, around He sees angels in the architecture



orthodox 

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Life lies a slow suicide Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths



oyster

Lyrics: There's never been an oyster so divine A river deep that never runs dry

Lyrics: One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster


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