09 - Tiny little fantasy

music by Jannis Zotos
lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis

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You came like a breeze and laid paradise
on our lips with a kiss.
Then you passed us
and ecstatically we saw you merge
with the everlasting and eternal light.

Now there is nothing left
that reminds of you passing by.

It was our kissed lips becoming hawks
that sighingly took wing for every gleam.
Perhaps it is you and your kiss

(Athens, 1943)

The trees that held us apart became rooms
the flowers became people
the earth and the apes
became offices, paperwork and castles,

chaos replenished chaos
love.

(Sun & Time, 1967)

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.