03 - I will find you

music by Jannis Zotos
lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis

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Three moons put upside down in your palm.
Ship broken in two, full of larks and violets.
I passed by you and you were yesterday's rain.

I will find you,
holding in my hand a sinew all on edge.

(Athens, 1946)

Do you know the tiny anemones that sprout in April?
I would like to string them for you in a wooden frame.
That seems to be the only way to tell you about the dreams
that are whipping me.

I will find you,
holding in my hand a sinew all on edge.

(Sun & Time, 1967)

I have nothing left except my sleeve
that is torn to threads.

I can no longer bear to hear the voices of the birds.
I passed by you and you were yesterday's rain.

(Athens, 1946)

I will find you,
holding in my hand a sinew all on edge.

Mikis Theodorakis ...

... once told me "if I were 20 years younger I would have become a rock musician".

With this sentence in my ear, I only recorded all songs with an electric guitar, a 53 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop.

It is very difficult to choose songs from the huge fund of his work. It is significant that I always go back to three cycles when searching because they make me emotionally very agitated:
"Ta Lyrica" (1976) (which in the broadest affect my own story or that of my parents), "Ilios kai Chronos" (1967) and "Lipotaktes" (1952-57).

I thank my brother Thanasis for wonderfully supporting me vocally, I thank Wolfgang Loos for the fantastic mix, Michael Rodach for his mental support, Angelika for her whistling skills in "Phaedra" and most of all I thank you, Mikis, for your songs and the time I spent with you.