Name: Stala ti stala / Στάλα τη στάλα
Duration: P00H04M27S
Description: A song about the most important thing in our lives that is getting less and less as time moves on. Stala ti stala, drop by drop the water flows.

Stala ti stala / Στάλα τη στάλα

from Afromantinades by Afromantinades, Lefteris Grigoriou, Dimitris Athanasopoulos

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A song about the most important thing in our lives that is getting less and less as time moves on. Stala ti stala, drop by drop the water flows.

lyrics

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Στάλα τη στάλα το νερό το μάρμαρο τρυπά το
κι εκείνο που μισεί κανείς γυρίζει κι αγαπά το

Απ’ το νερό με τράβηξε η μαία μία μέρα
και μόνη μου παρηγοριά μ’ απόμειν’ η μπανιέρα

Κάποτε ήμουν θάλασσα και θάλασσα θα γίνω
και κάπου εκεί ανάμεσα θέλω νερό να πίνω

Ήσουν νερό με δρόσιζες μα είσαι νερό κι αλλάζεις
και υποσχέσεις δεν κρατάς και πίσω δεν κοιτάζεις

English translation

Drop by drop the water flows and pierces through the marble
and what somebody used to hate by time they get to love it

One day the midwife pulled me out of the water
and since then the only consolation left to me is the Bathtub

I used to be the sea someday and see again I ‘ll be
and somewhere in the meantime I need water to drink

You were water and you were cooling me down
but you are water and you change
and you don't keep promises and you don't look back

credits

from Afromantinades, released December 10, 2023
music - Dimitris Athanasopoulos
lyrics – Dimitris Athanasopoulos / Lefteris Grigoriou / Unknown

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Lefteris Grigoriou Athens, Greece

Lefteris Grigoriou is a teacher and performer based in Athens, Greece. He owns and runs the school Ta Krousta tis Taki, teaching african and greek percussion between others and performs with the group Afromantinades as well as Global Daoulia playing the Ngoni, djembe and bagpipes. ... more