Let the dances last!!!

This morning,after reading the news in my little-love it-lap top, I needed something to cheer me up. I mean...give me a break.

 Nothing works for me better than music ;]

So let me see...Something cheerful. An antidote to what's been happening for the last 18 months.
I've had enough of this:

Dyonisis Savopoulos is a famous and popular song maker/singer.
In 1983 he sang this song in a historical, monumental beach party in Vouliagmeni near Athens.
More than 100.000 people in an 8 hours long concert, organized by another songwriter L.Kilaidonis. 





Since then the song became more and more popular.It became the emblematic song for every victory of the Greek National Football/Basketball/Water Polo/Whatever team (because it has the words "to your health national team")
It may sound too patriotic ,but it really is a song about friendships. The meaning of the word "parea" is the people you hang out with,your closest friends,the group of like minded peers.
"Pareas" are making History!!
They have always done so;)


The video is from the original consert,so the sound is not as good as the studio version but I love the scenes of the crowd :)

"Let the dances last

and we will find new haunts in the countryside

until this gathering takes off like an autonomous village!

Up among the planets,

Greeks are building networks with antennas and transmitters,

and "pareas"* are writing history!

George starts

"Are we?Are we not?We are nothing"

 Johnny sings

"if everything is brand new,something will come out"

and while the night is up in flames

here comes young Alkis

to unite old and new blazing trails

with the rock** of our future.

The sky is on fire

winds blow the sparkling embers away

Along the sea shore their mirror images

 are illuminated "pareas".

And either with antiquities

either with orthodoxy

our community is building a new galaxy

Here comes Babis,a bit tipsy!

Lydia is shy because all eyes are on her.

Zoe and Achilles smile at the camera.

Helena,the dancer, leans on Tasos' arms

and  they both sing with their eyes shut:

"To your health national team!!"

It is not the Parliament's fault

it is not our representatives fault

-lonely and faceless men-

the reason of the trouble is that they forgot what they love.

But our love has a name

it has a body and a religion

and a grandfather born in an independent village 
during the Turkish occupation.

So,may God keep us healthy

to always gather and have fun

with winding dances, free flowing like rivers.

Let our gathering strengthen

and unite old and new blazing trails

with the rock** of our future."

*like minded close friends you hang out every day with.

**as in rock music