Ελένη [Eleni] [English translation]

We live in a magical world

With the Acropolis and Lykavittos Hill as a background.

The balconies are full of political nightingales,

Promises and love and multicolored balloons

For happy years.

And you, Eleni, and every Eleni

Sleeping Beauty of the provinces of Athens

Your life, you should know, is on the "wanted" list.

It's one thing to die for Greece,

And another to have Greece make you die.

And you, Eleni, and every Eleni

Sleeping Beauty of the provinces of Athens

We live in a magical world,

Which works deviously with the singular purpose

To get you into the game of believing your life will be fixed

To promise and promise, to ravage your soul

And when it reaches the point of controlling the pain of your hopes

It is not satisfied with only that

With sweet words it takes you by the hand

And baptizes you master of Greece

And at the moment you say things have changed and you raise your glass,

It snatches and steals your dream, and performs "harakiri" on it.

And you, Eleni....

• Artist:Haris Alexiou
• Album:Η αγάπη είναι ζάλη - 1986