Ola Kala

Giorgos Dalaras released his album Sta Psila Ta Parathyria (Στα Ψηλά Τα Παραθύρια, In Tall Windows) in 1975. Ola Kala (Όλα καλά, Everything's Fine) was the seventh song that hits my melancholic spot. He says "Yesterday you were with someone else ... where is the street to sing memories aren't allowed". Listen to that beautiful indifference with a bit of sorrow sprinkled here and there and the little waves of the Aegean.

The music and words were written by Stavros Kouyiomtzis who co-worked with Dalaras to emerge him as a prominent Greek singer.

To sing along the music here are the Latinized version Greek lyrics:

Ola kala ki ola orea
htes isoun m’ alone parea

ke pou sokaki na tragoudisis

den epitreponte i anamnisis

Mila siga ke mi fonazis

ime koutos ke me tromazis

de thelo kosmo ke fasaria

avrio beno stin anergia

Eho psihi, den eho vraho

pali me afises monaho

ke mia simea s’ ena balcony

allazi hromata ke me skotoni

Ola kala ki ola orea

htes isoun m’ alone parea

ke pou sokaki na tragoudisis

den epitreponte i anamnisis

And to understand:

Everything is fine and beautiful

yesterday you were with someone else

and where (is) a street to sing

memories aren’t allowed

Speak calmly and don’t shout

I’m silly and you scare me

I don’t want people and noise

tomorrow I go into unemployment

I have soul, not a rock

you left me alone again

and a flag on a balcony

changes colours and it kills me

Everything is fine and beautiful

yesterday you were with someone else

and where (is) a street to sing

memories aren’t allowed

Rest of the album:

Sources

1. Wikipedia

2. Ekşisözlük, Ola Kala (Latinized version of the Greek lyrics)

3. Lyricstranslate.com (English translation)