If you want to learn, ask me
What the pain in the heart is
And when my thoughts go to you
The tears fall like rain
I listen to songs that remind me of you
Where their lyrics are fire
And I put the speakers on full volume
To get passionate with the music*
Step aside and let me dance a zeibekiko**
With a sértiko*** cigarette in my mouth
On my lips to burn like my damned life
Greek in foreign lands but foreign in Greece
Oh Greece!
Greece mother I love you
Blood can't turn into water
I'll yell it even if I'm hurting
You are born a Greek, you don't become one
Bouzoukia play me the notes
To dance two turns
To smoke a cigarette
And exaggerate
Step aside and let me dance a zeibekiko
With a sértiko cigarette in my mouth
On my lips to burn like my damned life
Greek in foreign lands but foreign in Greece
Step aside and let me dance a zeibekiko
With a sértiko cigarette in my mouth
On my lips to burn like my damned life
Greek in foreign lands but foreign in Greece
Oh Greece!
*"πενιά" refers to the sound or strum of a musical instrument, typically the bouzouki
**Greek folk dance
***traditional Greek cigarette