Αύγουστος [Avgoustos] [English translation]

August by Nikos Papazoglou

But why has this song to be sad

It feels like it cut a piece of my heart

At this moment that I am full of joy

It rose up to my lips and drowned me

Save yourself for the end, you tell me

I love you but I don’t have the words to tell you

And this is an unbearable sadness

I melt from the pain because I feel it too

That the road we’re on is impassable

Be strong it will pass you’ll tell me

Refrain

How can I forget her loose flowing hair

On the sand as waterfalls bathed her

As she leaned over me, thousands of kisses, diamonds that she generously offered to me

I’ll go even if it’s bad for me

In which ectasy in a magical dance

Could such a creature have been born

From which distant start came the light

That hid in her two eyes

And me the lucky guy who saw it

Inside her sight a tiny sky

Lightens clouds and unfolds itself

But when night falls it’s full of light

August moon rises up and from inside shines the prison