Noemvris '90 [17 Xronia Meta] [Νοέμβρης '90 [17 Χρόνια Μετά]] [English translation]

This day that I chose

to stand here in front of you

songs and minced words

to lay down to the light

How did I make this kind of decision

I don't know if I can bear it

This day reminds me of a massacre

The year was November

and here was a total chaos

I was 19 years old

and she was 731

And so I fell in love with

some date

and love stays for a long time

But time is spinning around

Both she and I grew up

And my friends grew up

they're around forties

They hung on to political parties

and I don't know what to say

and the others go to their little home forever

Distance saved us

but memories are hurting us

and when we meet we talk about

the same old things

However I feel like a little kid

who have been scolded

and I leave for a barren province

I look again behind me

I also have two sons

19 Novembers

weighed me down my back

Flags and carnations

commerce and fraud

and officials' speeches in the emptiness

I keep my mouth shut

my lips bled

and those who betrayed us

shall be loveless

Jerks, we aren't goners

that's the only thing I want to tell them

the lovers' dreams son't fade away

1. The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. The uprising began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of November 17 after a series of events starting with a tank crashing through the gates of the Polytechnic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Polytechnic_uprising

• Artist:Dionisis Tsaknis
• Album:Αλήτης Καιρός - 1991 (Ακτή ‎– 469061 2) Track 6 of 10