01 - When you are unable to cry

music by Jannis Zotos
lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis


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Two black wings are my spirit
and I feel that I touch them
like a hawk high above sere land.

When you are unable to cry
then do not search for your tears.

And you are no longer waiting for me
to give you anything else.
You took everything.
And I believe you buried it deeply.

When you are unable to cry
then do not search for your tears.

It's better this way. Now you neither
need to watch nor to remember the big
pain I disseminated so many years ago.

When you are unable to cry
then do not search for your tears.

(Chairetismi, 1981)