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Φάλτσα Μενεξεδιά

Μενεξεδιά η τρέλα που φοράς,
την ψώνισες μια νύχτα με πανσέληνο.
Μενεξεδιά κι η τύχη που ζητάς
σαράντα χρόνια μόνος κι έρημος.
 
Στη Σαλονίκη και στα άλλα τα νησιά
ψάχνεις το γνήσιο και το ανέρωτο.
Χτυπιέσαι στα υπόγεια καπηλειά
και τραγουδάς σε ήχο πλάγιο δεύτερο.
 
Σαράντα χρόνια γίναν όλα πλαστικά,
μαστίχα έγινε το κρέας σου,
σιρόπι τα ιδανικά
κι αυτά τα λόγια της γριάς μητέρας σου.
Ψαρεύεις ψάρια στα βουνά,
ξιφομαχείς στην άσφαλτο για το άδικο.
Του φεγγαριού την πλάτη καβαλάς,
λαθρεπιβάτης σε τοπικό γκαζάδικο.
 
Μενεξεδιά, μενεξεδιά, μενεξεδιά.
 
Translation

Purplish in falcetto sound

Purplish in falsetto sound1is the color of your folly,
you’ve caught it on a full moon night.
Purplish in falsetto sound is the color of your lost luck
forty years lonely in the wilderness.
 
In Salonica’s islands
in search of genuine truth and wine.
A wreck in the basement taverns
sing with a voice in the second parallel sound2.
 
Forty years all turned into plastic,
your flesh into gum,
ideals into syrup
in your ears the sound of your old mother’s words.
You’re fishing in the mountains,
you're swording against injustice on the asphalt.
On Moon’s back, you're climbing,
a non-ticketed passenger in the local tanker.
 
Purplish, purplish, purplish.
 
Comments
Don JuanDon Juan
   Wed, 07/09/2022 - 13:27

'Puprlish' is not an English word. 'Purplish' is, and as you can see you translated it correctly everywhere else in the translation except in the title. Please update it. Else I will. Thank you.

Don JuanDon Juan
   Wed, 07/09/2022 - 19:11

Please reread my comment, very attentively. There's a typo in the translation title only, every other instance of that word it is correctly spelled. Correct it else I will. I am pretty sure you can notice it.

Don JuanDon Juan
   Wed, 07/09/2022 - 19:43

I don't have as much free time as it seems I do, so I have corrected the typo now.

I wasn't even supposed to do that, but as I know this will bring attention to the page here's proof of all I've done. Check the image, then check the word you looked for in the dictionary - spellings are different, aren't them?
https://imgur.com/a/FjAXaps