Words of Hellenic (Greek) origin in popular, successful or favorite international songs.
N, O
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
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
Lyrics: Neon 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)
Lyrics: Neon heart, dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us
Close To You - MAXI PRIEST
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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
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Cult Of Personality - LIVING COLOUR
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Don’t Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS
Lyrics: I see neon lights
Downtown - PETULA CLARK
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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
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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
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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
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You Belong To The City - GLENN FREY
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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
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numismatic
Radio Musicola - NIK KERSHAW
Lyrics: why tolerate this numismatical polity
oasis
Midnight At The Oasis - MARIA MULDAUR (1973)
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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I Build This Garden For Us - LENNY KRAVITZ
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If I Was - MIDGE URE
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It’s Impossible - PERRY COMO
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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
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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
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My Love - PETULA CLARK
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New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS (1982)
Lyrics: She is your friend Until the ocean breaks
Northwinds - THE STRANGLERS
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The Ocean - RICHARD HAWLEY
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Ocean Rain - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
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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
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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
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She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY
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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)
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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
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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
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Ode To Boy - YAZOO
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Ode To My Family - THE CRANBERRIES
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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)
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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
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Thank You My Love - IMAGINATION (1984)
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There Must Be An Angel - EURYTHMICS
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orchid
Radio Orchid - FURY IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
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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
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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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