Stamatis Kraounakis

Λες και μέσα μας τ’ αντίθετα τραβάν
να ψηφίσουνε στο ίδιο παραβάν
σαν αιώνιο Ιησούν ή Βαραβάν
του ανθρώπου η φύση.

When I have you
I can dream again
I sail into the sea
and I take the world in my hands
to fix it

When I have you
I am able to not sink slowly
the nights when the heart gets broken
and I take the knife
to cut the darkness

Take one step
and I will take the next one
my blood and figure
word and soul in the context

When I have you
I sleep like a child, I have a person
I am not afraid of anyone
You and I
in the inhuman world

You and me
When I have you
I can paint the rust in silver
I can sleep securely
catch the dragons with my hands
to kill them

When I have you
I can stand, I can go by the cliff
I know, I have a hand to hold on to
a person near me
to unite my years

Όταν έχω εσένα
αντέχω, πάω δίπλα στον γκρεμό
το ξέρω, έχω ένα χέρι να πιαστώ
κοντά μου έναν άνθρωπο
τα χρόνια μου να ενώσω

A black flag in my hands I hold.
Your names with blood are written
To find you again I try, having become sick,
But in the ashes of a love I walk.
Black flag in one of the hidden places of the world
a trunk which contains only deception.

Black flag that we have been holding since a long time ago
Poisoned, damned, in love
We have all of us a noose around our necks
I shall not find you, you will be a scattered mine.

Black flag that we have been holding since a long time ago
Poisoned, damned, in love
The memory burns passions, it burns kisses too
In what homeland, I wonder, live the happy ones

I go around to the bars and in the streets to find you.
Wherever you are from everywhere there are shields.
They promised you it seems a bed and care,
a well-made life and the water of immortal youth.

You don’t remember me. How should you know. And if you saw me
a black flag you would see me wearing.

Black flag that we have been holding since a long time ago
Poisoned, damned, in love
We have all of us a noose around our necks
I shall not find you, you will be a scattered mine.

Black flag that we have been holding since a long time ago
Poisoned, damned, in love
The memory burns passions, it burns kisses too
In what homeland, I wonder, live the happy ones

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Μαύρη σημαία την κρατάμε από παλιά
Φαρμακωμένοι, κολασμένοι, ερωτευμένοι
Η μνήμη καίει πάθη, καίει και φιλιά
Σε ποια πατρίδα, τάχα, ζουν οι ευτυχισμένοι

Εχω δυο χαμόγελα άνθη του καλού
το ένα είναι για σένα το άλλο του Θεού
έχω δυο χαμόγελα σε παρακαλώ
όλα μοιάζουν ρόδινα όταν σε φιλώ

I got a red pair of glasses
And I see everything like a movie all around
and I know neither how to live
nor how to love
I supervise my life

I got a red pen
and I wander coast to coast, writing
ditties of fire
of fire and blaze
I copy my life

How I love this sun
How I love this sun
How I love the morning
And the friend is a pain
And the friend is a pain
shouting “promenade”

How I love the moon
how I love the moon
when it comes out to see me
holding the lantern
holding the lantern
over the wound of love

I got a red heart
and I’m dressed in wide shirts
and I’m asking to be told
by all those knowing how to love
to which love I’m owing

I got red wings
and I’m having a good time, I’m laughing
I get a body of snow
and a swallow’s tail
I’m speaking to the ear of God

How I love this sun
How I love this sun
How I love the morning
And the friend is a pain
And the firend is a pain
shouting “promenade”

How I love the moon
how I love the moon
when it comes out to see me
holding the lantern
holding the lantern
over the wound of love

I got a pair of red glasses
And I see everything like a movie
I know neither how to live
nor how to love

Πήρα κόκκινα γυαλιά
κι όλα γύρω σινεμά τα βλέπω
κι ούτε ξέρω πώς να ζω
ούτε και πώς ν’ αγαπώ