1. |
Fantasy
03:08
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Pig tails
Bare skin
Breath in
Breath in pure love
Opens up
Everything
Everything
Exhale
In wonder
And ponder
If I can keep good love
And open up
Everything
Oh, everything
Forgot
Forgot
Pure love
My god!
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2. |
Inner world
03:20
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There’s a world we can’t fathom
That clutters our view
And the more we believe it
The more it seems true
Some call it fear monger
While others just kneel
And worship its power to steal
All they could feel
So powerless creatures
Nod and give in
To all its vain fancies
And apparels on strings
There’s an inner world waiting Itself to reveal
And it’s hidden behind
These tall walls of steel
As if they were real…
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3. |
No prologue
03:07
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I don’t want to think
I’ll be returning to an empty old house
With rooms filled with dusty doubts
Ten years I spent,
Scratching the surface of what I could be
I did not dare see
That it was time for change, change, change
When it was time to turn the page
And be brave
True love can wait
And it can heal all the wounds in our hearts
Erase all the suffering it has brought
Twenty years I spent
Postponing the day of becoming a man
I could not withstand the fact
That it was time to change, change, change
When it was time to turn the page
And be brave
Now I recognise the fears inside me, and the way they blind me…oh
Drowning every effort in rejection for so long
And when I understand the world around me, happiness will find me…oh
Flooded every second by affection
Cured by song…cured by song
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4. |
Now happiness
03:27
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Not everyone has to know
If I’m blowing the dust off my bones
If I’m searching to find a new home
Not everyone has to know
Not everyone needs to know
How many times I denied you
And if I did all I could to fight you
Not everything needs to be like before
Now, now, happiness
Now, now, nothingness
Not everyone cares to know
The memories that I’m collecting
And if I’m thinking of spaceships
Not everyone cares to know what it’s for
Now, now, happiness
Now, now, nothingness
Now, now, happiness
No, no, nothing less
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5. |
Tortured by light
04:13
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As the river flows
Nature is calling us
to sing a song
A song to wash away
The burden of yesterday
The right and wrong
There is beauty in feeling
Tortured by light
There is beauty in seeing
That you could be kind to yourself
And make your peace with the need to be someone else
The need to be somebody new
As the road unfolds
Your angels are reaching out
to take you home
Home where sadness fades
And bitterness has no place
Nor hate or scorn
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6. |
Joy and pain
04:02
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Joy and pain
To me are just the same
Only feelings toying with my brain
A swift rush of blood
A chemical flood
Is there more?
Is life a bitter chore
for my sinful soul?
I kept on running after ghosts
My heart kept on pounding I reached the coast
Of new beginnings
The earth was spinning
To a different rhythm than before
than before
than before
So I rise above the misery
The indifference and apathy
The self-inflicted ignorance of man
The man who filled his head with thoughts
which lent his mouth contemptuous words
Pull the curtain that conceals the truth
Join me breeze
With you I feel at ease
And I take it in...
And I take it in...
And I take it in...
With you I feel at ease [repeat]
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7. |
The Sun melts the ice
03:26
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What we could and we won’t
We look away
Look away
Here I stand, here I lay
When my perception laughs
Where the night ends
As a grip the controls...
While the madman lies
I look away
Look away
And reality slides
Into a purposeless cry
That brings me back home
As the Sun melts the ice
I want to see, I want to be
Be the blink of your eye
Be the fold in your smile
That brings me back home
It brings me back home.
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8. |
Monumental lie?
03:35
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Your joyous laughter is the key
To make my earthly life complete
And heal this forgetful heart
What can I wish for after all?
After the summer turns to fall
I tend to fall
In an image of life
That’s colored by strife
But you...
...you are the mirror to my soul
The place that I look for to be whole
You make questions vanish from my view
Cos sadness is something I can cure
But why I am here for I can’t recall
I can’t be sure
If this is this just an image of life
A monumental lie...?
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9. |
Under the Sun
03:17
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It remains to be seen
I’m never sure what it means
It seems I’m always stuck with a riddle, now
In the thick of it all
Here I am standing tall
Singing songs and fighting my battles
I earned my place under the sun
I earned my place under the sun
I earned my place, yes, I earned my place under the sun
It remains to be seen
If disconnection will win
A victory for the individual, now
Why prefer to implore
What we choose to ignore
Let it go, it’s forming a barrier
To make our way to the stars
We can find our way to the stars
Cos we earned our place, yes, we earned our place under the sun
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10. |
Old soul
03:47
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Baby cat’s a kitten
What a life I’m leading
There’s no color in this room
No escape, only fate
Fade away is what I do
Why do I must feel so blue?
Could it be because I choose to be so blue?
But, ain’t no use in thinking
Cos in thoughts I’m sinking
And I don’t want to sink no more
But I belong to this song
Oh, oh…
What’s an invitation?
And what is mere temptation?
What is fake and what is real?
Do we get to seal the deal?
I’m losing my perspective
I should be selective
I shouldn’t think that I belong
To every song that comes along
Oh no, I should find my home
And my home is inside this old soul.
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Lefteris Moumtzis Cyprus
Cypriot artist Lefteris Moumtzis is one of the most established musicians and songwriters in the Cypriot and Greek music community over the last ten years. His albums with Trio Tekke represent milestones of contemporary Greek rembetiko music. He has released three albums as J.Kriste, Master of Disguise and he is now releasing records as Freedom Candlemaker. ... more
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