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Τετάρτη 1 Νοεμβρίου 2017

Hellenic (Greek) words in international songs - Α (Alpha)


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

A


abyss (βυσσος)

Falling From Grace - THE GENTLE WAVES (LP Swansong For You, 2000)
Lyrics: and if we fall from grace, at least we had a taste of something more than this unresolved black abyss

Powerslave - IRON MAIDEN (LP Powerslave, 1984)
Lyrics: Into the abyss I fall

The Gift - LONE JUSTICE (LP Shelter, 1986)
Lyrics: the gift of light in the abyss



academy (ἀκαδημία)

Geno - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS (LP Searching For... 1980)
Lyrics: academic inspiration you gave me none

He's On The Phone - SAINT ETIENNE feat. ETIENNE DAHO (single, 1995)
Lyrics: Academia girl, her life's a gas

Loverboy In Hollywood - SCRAPTOWN (LP Rules Of The Game, 1983)
Lyrics: She's won an Academy Award

Perfect Skin - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: academia blues

The Dark Of The Matinee - FRANZ FERDINAND (LP Franz Ferdinand, 2004)
Lyrics: you must follow me, leave this academic factory



ache (ἄχος)

Bohemian Rhapsody - QUEEN (LP A Night At The Opera, 1975)
Lyrics: body's aching all the time

Circle In The Sand - BELINDA CARLISLE (LP Heaven On Earth, 1987)
Lyrics: day breaks, my heart aches

Crazy In Love - KIM CARNES (LP View From The House, 1988)
Lyrics: Neither of us will admit it But we're both aching to say Weeooh I miss the days when we were Crazy in love

Everybody's Changing - KEANE (LP Hopes & Fears, 2004)
Lyrics: you're aching, you're breaking

Never Gonna Give You Up - RICK ASTLEY (LP Whenever You Need Somebody, 1987)
Lyrics: your heart's been aching but you're to shy to say it

Privilege (Set Me Free) - PATTI SMITH GROUP (LP Easter, 1978)
Lyrics: my body’s aching

The Show Must Go On - QUEEN (LP Innuendo, 1991)
Lyrics: another heartache, another failed romance... but inside in the dark I'm aching to be free

What Else Is There? - RÖYKSOPP (LP The Understanding, 2005)
Lyrics: what I have and what I ache for



acoustic (ἀκουστικός)

Shakespeare’s Sister - THE SMITHS (single, 1985)
Lyrics: I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar then it meant that you were a protest singer, oh I can smile about it now



acrobat (ακροβάτης)

Beautiful - BABBLE (LP The Stone, 1994)



aeroplane, airplane (ἀεροπλάνο)

Aeroplane - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (LP One Hot Minute, 1995)
Lyrics: music is my aeroplane

It's The End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M. (LP Document1987)
Lyrics: birds and snakes and aeroplanes

Manic Monday - BANGLES (LP Different Light1986)
Lyrics: and if I had an aeroplane. I still couldn't make it on time

Nightrain - GUNS’N’ROSES (single, 1989 / LP Appetite For Destruction1987)
Lyrics: Loaded like a freight train, flying like an aeroplane

Sledgehammer - PETER GABRIEL (LP So1986)
Lyrics: you could have an aeroplane flying, if you bring your blue sky back

The Letter - THE BOX TOPS (single, 1967)
Lyrics: Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train



agony (γωνία)

Aqualung - JETHRO TULL (LP Aqualung, 1971)
Lyrics: when the ice that clings on to your beard. it was screaming agony

Don’t Mess With Doctor Dream - THOMPSON TWINS (LP Here's To Future Days, 1985)
Lyrics: oh those demons scream in ecstacy and you crawl in agony

Here's To You - JOAN BAEZ (OST Sacco Ε Vanzetti, 1971)
Lyrics: that agony is your triumph

Presence Of Love - THE ALARM (LP Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987)
Lyrics: I'm alive with the agony, the ecstacy

Shame - THE MOTELS (LP Shock, 1985)
Lyrics: I've got to change things I've got to make a change I'm tired of spending time agonizing yesterdays

Sober - P!NK (LP Funhouse, 2008)
Lyrics: broken down in agony just tryin' to find a friend



air (ἀήρ, ἀέρας)

A Song For The Lovers - RICHARD ASHCROFT (LP Alone With Everybody, 2000)
Lyrics: something in the air tells me that the time is right

Breathe Me - HORSE (LP The Same Sky, 1990)
Lyrics: breathe me I am air

City Never Sleeps - VIKTOR LAZLO (LP Hot & Soul, 1989)
Lyrics: in the cold night air, there's action somwhere

Don’t Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS (LP Get Close, 1986)
Lyrics: there’s something in the air

Foreign Affair - MIKE OLDFIELD feat. MAGGIE REILLY (LP Crises, 1983)
Lyrics: take a trip in the air.... a hush in the air... floating on air

Give Me The Night - GEORGE BENSON (LP Give Me The Night, 1980)
Lyrics: 'cause there's music in the air

Love Is In The Air - JOHN PAUL YOUNG (single, Dec 1977)
Lyrics

Maria - BLONDIE (LP No Exit, 1999)
Lyrics: smooth as silk, cool as air

Walking On Air - FRAZIER CHORUS (LP Ray, 1991)
Lyrics

We Don't Need Another Hero - TINA TURNER (OST Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985)
Lyrics: All else are castles built in the air



alabaster (αλάβαστρος)

Ecstasy - LOU REED (LP Ecstasy, 2000)
Lyrics: I'm smooth as alabaster

Shoplifters Of The World Unite - THE SMITHS (single, 1987)
Lyrics: alabaster crashes down

Wrapped Around Your Finger - THE POLICE (LP Synchronicity, 1983)
Lyrics: I will turn your face to alabaster



allegory, allegorical (αλληγορία, αλληγορικός)

A Girl Like You - EDWYN COLLINS (LP Gorgeous George, 1994)
Lyrics: You've made me acknowledge the devil in me, I hope to God I'm talkin' metaphorically, hope that I'm talkin' allegorically



allergy (αλλεργία / αντιδάνειο)

Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)
Lyrics

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)
Lyrics: What kind of man is he To create this allergy?

Incommunicado - MARILLION (LP Clutching At Straws, 1987)
Lyrics: I‘ve got an allergy to Perrier



alphabet (αλφάβητο)

Alphabet St. - PRINCE (LP Lovesexy, 1988)
Lyrics: I'm going down to Alphabet street

Never Ever - ALL SAINTS (LP All Saints, 1997)
Lyrics: the alphabet runs right from A to Z



amethyst (αμέθυστος)

Dance Hall Days - WANG CHUNG (LP Points On The Curve, 1983)
Lyrics: take your baby by the wrist and in her mouth an amethyst



amnesia (αμνησία)

Amnesia - 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER (LP 5 Seconds Of Summer, 2014)



analog, analogue (ανάλογος, αναλογικός)

Analogue (All I Want) - A HA (LP Analogue, 2005)



analyze, analysis (ανάλυση)

Analyse - THE CRANBERRIES (LP Wake Up & Smell The Coffee, 2001)
Lyrics: don't analyse

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)
Lyrics: I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams

Country House - BLUR (LP The Great Escape, 1995)
Lyrics: he takes all manner of pills and piles analyst bills in the country

Crush - JENNIFER PAIGE (single, 1998)
Lyrics: if you see something in my eye, let’s not overanalyze

Die Another Day - MADONNA (OST Die Another Day, 2002)
Lyrics: Sigmund Freud, analyze this!

Do Anything You Want To - THIN LIZZY (LP Black Rose, 1979)
Lyrics: people that despise you will analyze and criticize you

For My Lover - TRACY CHAPMAN (LP Tracy Chapman, 1988)
Lyrics: Every day I'm psychoanalyzed

Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy) - ROGER HODGSON (LP In The Eye Of The Storm, 1984)
Lyrics: that is something you can analyse, something you can criticise

Rushing Hour - STING (LP The Bridge, 2021)
Lyrics: I'll see my shrink on an analyst's couch

Something Beautiful - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (LP Escapology, 2002)
Lyrics: you analyze everyone you meet

Two Horse Town - STEREO MC’s (LP Supernatural, 1990)
Lyrics: from hieroglyphics to computer analysis



anarchy (αναρχία)

Anarchy In The U.K - SEX PISTOLS (single, 1976 / LP Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, 1977)
Lyrics

Ant Rap - ADAM ANT (LP Prince Charming, 1981)
Lyrics: so tired of anarchists looking at me



anesthesia (αναισθησία)

Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don’t need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill



anchor (άγκυρα)

Goodbye Stranger - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: like a ship without an anchor

You Could Be Forgiven - HORSE (LP The Same Sky, 1990)
Lyrics: Into anchor-tattooed arms Go sad-eyed dreamers bound for elsewhere



angel (άγγελος)

All The Angels - BIG SLEEP (LP With God & Her Sisters, 2001)
Lyrics: I'm miles away from all the angels

Angel - MASSIVE ATTACK (LP Mezzanine, 1998)
Lyrics: You are my angel

Because The Night - PATTI SMITH GROUP (LP Easter, 1978)
Lyrics: love is an angel disguised as lust

Bones - THE KILLERS (LP Sam's Town, 2006)
Lyrics: an angel whispers my name

Candy - ASH (LP Free All Angels, 2001)
Lyrics: angel, all people are the same

Centerfold - J. GEILS BAND (LP Freeze-Frame, 1981)
Lyrics: no one could ever stain the memory of my angel... my angel is the centerfold

Child Is My Name - KEMOPETROL (LP Slowed Down, 2000)
Lyrics: Immortal angels Dressed up as junkies

Creep - RADIOHEAD (single, 1992 / LP Pablo Honey, 1993)
Lyrics: you're just like an angel

Devil Or Angel - THE CLOVERS (single, 1956)
Devil Or Angel - BOBBY VEE (single, 1960)
Lyrics

Frederick - PATTI SMITH GROUP (LP Wave, 1979)
Lyrics: guardian angels lay a bed, shed their light on my sleepy head

I Can Laugh About It Now - BLACK (LP Comedy, 1988)
Lyrics: is there room in the sky for all of us angels here

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - MICHAEL JACKSON feat. SIEDAH GARRETT (LP Bad, 1987)
Lyrics: at your call I hear harps & angels sing

Like A Prayer - MADONNA (LP Like A Prayer, 1989)
Lyrics: I hear your voice, it's like a angel sighing

Love's A Stranger - WARHAUS (LP Warhaus2017)
Lyrics: If angels decide Will they let us be? Cause we’re provocative babe You and me

Nice ’n’ Sleazy - THE STRANGLERS (LP Black & White, 1978)
Lyrics: an angel came from outside



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angel

How Low Is Low - GODFATHERS 
Lyrics: archangel Gabriel

It Must Be Heaven - MERCY, MERCY
Lyrics angel in disguise

Number one friend - THE SILENCERS
Lyrics: I would like to be your guardian angel

One Night In Bangkok - MURRAY HEAD
Lyrics: I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One of these nights - EAGLES
Lyrics:  (demon, devil)

The painted moon - THE SILENCERS
Lyrics:

Rebel Yell - BILLY IDOL
Lyrics:

Running Up That Hill - KATE BUSH
Lyrics:

Stories of Johnny - MARC ALMOND
Lyrics: I’ll call on the angels

Streets of Philadelphia - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Lyrics:

Summer Wine-N.SINATRA & L. HAZLEWOOD
Lyrics:

Tears of pearls-SAVAGE GARDEN
Lyrics:

(They long to be) Close to you-CARPENTERS
Lyrics:

Under The Bridge - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Lyrics:

Why can’t I be you-CURE   
Lyrics: everything you do is quite angelicate..

Wild Boys - DURAN DURAN
Lyrics:

You Give Love A Bad Name - BON JOVI
Lyrics:

You mean everything to me-NEIL SEDAKA
Lyrics: angel from above..



anonymity

Fly Too High - JANIS IAN         
Lyrics: Anonymous

Incommunicado - MARILLION 
Lyrics: I don’t want launderette anonymity



antichrist

Anarchy In The U.K. - SEX PISTOLS
Lyrics:

World Destruction-TIME ZONE
Lyrics:



antibiotics

Thank u-ALANIS MORISSETTE
Lyrics:



antidote

After Hours (The Antidote) - RONNY JORDAN
Instrumental

Twist and shout-SALT & PEPA 
Lyrics: a sexy girl like me ‘s the antidote



anxiety

Country House - BLUR



apathy

Think for a minute-HOUSEMARTINS 
Lyrics: now apathy is happy that it won without a fight
                                                                                                                       
What’s the frequency Kenneth-REM
Lyrics: withdrawal is disgust is not the same as apathy



aphrodisiac

Black river-BLOOMSDAY (LP Fortuny-1990)   
Lyrics: aphrodisia

Summertime-FRESH PRINCE
Lyrics:

(You're My) Aphrodisiac - DENNIS EDWARDS
Lyrics:



apocalypse

The fifth horseman-PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda heights)
Lyrics:



apology

Cannonball-SUPERTRAMP   
Lyrics: apologize

Cry-WATERFRONT                 
Lyrics: Please don’t apologise

Hi hi hi-SANDRA         
Lyrics: we might apologize

If you let me stay-T. T. D’ARBY
Lyrics: I must apologise

I’m sorry-BRENDA LEE

I finally found someone-B. ADAMS & B. STREIZAND   
Lyrics: apologize

Lady Lady Lady-JOE ESOSITO     
Lyrics: no apology

Louise-HUMAN LEAGUE             
Lyrics: apologize

Lucky stars-DEAN FRIEDMAN 
Lyrics: I was acting like a fool & I apologize

Missing you-CHRIS DeBURGH     
Lyrics: apologize

A question of lust-DEPECHE MODE 
Lyrics: apologies are all you seem to get

Take it round again-THE CRY   
Lyrics: I won’t except any apologies

A town called Malice-JAM   
Lyrics: stop apologizing

What a fool believes-DOOBIE BROTHERS
Lyrics:

What difference does it make-THE SMITHS
Lyrics: no more apologies....

What kind of fool-B. STREISAND & B. GIBB         
Lyrics: apologize

Why does a man have to be strong-PAUL YOUNG     
Lyrics:

The winner takes it all-ABBA     
Lyrics: I apologize if it makes you feel good

Let’s spend the night together-ROLLING STONES 
Lyrics: apologize

Life for rent-DIDO
Lyrics:

Sorry Mrs. Jackson-OUTCAST 
Lyrics: I apologize



apostles

Missionary Man - EURYTHMICS 
Lyrics: he’s got the saints and apostles backing from b.



arachnophobe

Persephone-COCTEAU TWINS (LP Treasure) 
Lyrics: bored arachnophobe



architecture

You can call me Al-PAUL SIMON
Lyrics: he sees angels in the architecture



aristocratic

America-PRINCE                 
Lyrics: Aristocrats on a mountain climb

King without a crown-ABC 
Lyrics: with one ex-member of the aristocracy

Lunatic-GAZEBO               
Lyrics: aristocratic



aroma

It Started With A Kiss - HOT CHOCOLATE
Lyrics: the aroma of your perfume


       
asphalt

Let’s go all the way-SLY FOX   
Lyrics: asphalt jungle



asthma

Bush doctor-PETER TOSH     
cure for asthma (marijuana)



asylum

Bones - TELENOVA (2021)
I live in asylums

Goodnight Saigon-BILLY JOEL 
we felt as inmates from an asylum.



atheist

Universal soldier-DONOVAN



atmosphere

I Love Music - O’JAYS
Lyrics:

Masterpiece - GAZEBO
Lyrics:

Rushing Hour - STING (LP The Bridge, 2021)
Lyrics: This is the sound of atmospheres

The Time Is Now - MOLOKO
Lyrics: the atmosphere is charged



attic

Classic - ADRIAN GURVITZ
Lyrics: gotta a write a classic, gotta write it in an attic

Sick & Tired - THE CARDIGANS 
Lyrics: you can always say my attic has it’s charm



authentic

Jackie - SCOTT WALKER



auto

?-NENA
Lyrics:



autograph

Breakfast in America-SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:

No sleep ‘til Brooklyn-BEASTIE BOYS
Lyrics: autographed pictures...



automatic

Angel Eyes - WET WET WET     
Lyrics: People say I’m so automatic

Automatic - THE POINTER SISTERS
Lyrics:

The Boy In The Bubble - PAUL SIMON 
Lyrics: automatic earth

Samurai-MICHAEL CRETU           
Lyrics: automaten

Working in a goldmine-AZTEC CAMERA 
Lyrics: automatically sunshine



Soon to be added:



air

Respect Yourself - BRUCE WILLIS & JUNE POINTER
Lyrics: you keep talking about the president you wanna stop air pollution
         
The Air That I Breathe - THE HOLLIES
Lyrics:
                   
Tomorrow People - ZIGGY MARLEY
Lyrics: so you’re in the air

Wonderful Life - BLACK   
Lyrics: and dreams hang in the air



airport

Airport - THE MOTORS
Lyrics

Handle With Care - TRAVELING WILBURYS
Lyrics: been stuck in a. terrorised



airwaves

The Politics Of Dancing - RE-FLEX
Lyrics:



also:

Adonis

Male Stripper - MAN 2 MAN MEET MAN PARISH
Lyrics: A ladies night Adonis..



Atlantic

This is England-THE CLASH 
Lyrics: south Atlantic wind blows ice



Apollo

Walk On The Wild Side - LOU REED
Lyrics:

Rage Hard - FGTH
Lyrics: