Ανθρώπινο Κράμα | Anthropino Krama (Human Alloy)

Greek lyrics Inspired by recent online, print & radio interviews of
George Dalaras and the 1983 Poem by Manolis Anagnostakis: Fovamai

The state of affairs is getting under my skin
Surrounded by Europe but everything is unclear
If numbers surpass human value
We might consider reversing the charges

I don't cling to strictly confined thought
Time's slow erosion brings ideas to fray
Quietly I pursue what others have not
To fill my own voids, my own way

We are but a human alloy of contradictions
Amidst the haze that shrouds our daily view
We are only human, full of certitude and chaos
A mix of beauty and rust, old and new

Terrified of fellow citizens, compliant for 7 years*
In town squares, one fine July morning*
Chanting and waving flags, "Give the junta back to us"
This year was even scarier, than the last

We are but a human alloy of contradictions
Amidst the haze that shrouds our daily view
We are only human, full of certitude and chaos
A mix of beauty and rust, old and new

The state of affairs is still getting under my skin

*This alludes to the 7 years Greece was in a dictatorship
*July 1974 was when the Junta fell