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Best of Aphrodite's Child lyrics

1    Spring, Summer, winter and fall     4:54    Best of Aphrodite's child (lyrics)
2 Such a funny night 4:31
3 I want to live 3:50
4 You always stand in my way 3:55
5 Rain and tears 3:13
6 Let me love, let me live 4:42
7 Don't try to catch a river 3:41
8 it's Five o'clock 3:28
9 Wake up 4:05
10 End of the world 3:14
  
      Total playing time   39:38  
             
   

Aphrodite's Child was formed in 1967 by Vangelis (keyboards), together with his musician friends Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals),
Lucas Sideras (drums and vocals) and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar).
But when the group went to Paris in 1968 Koulouris had to stay in Greece (for military service).

The first single was released in 1968: "Plastics nevermore" / "The other people" (as a demo for Philips).
The single "Rain and Tears", released in May 1968 was a huge success all over the world.
The first album: "End of the world" was relased in 1968.
In 1969 Aphrodite's Child released their second album "It's five o'clock".
In 1970 Vangelis started working on the album "666", when Silver Koulouris joined Aphrodite's Child.
The album was relased in 1971 (when the group has split up).

Lyrics by: Boris Bergman, Richard Julian Francis and R. Adams
Copyright is owned  by: Intersong Music Ltd and Flamingo Music Ltd and Jenner Music and Spheric B.V. Holland.

"I want to live" (based on "Plaisir d'amour" a french classical lovesong written in 1780 by J.P Martini)
Arr. by Vangelis.
"Rain and tears": based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Mayor [1653-1706].

Most lyrics transcribed from CD recording (lyrics not available on sleeve or in booklet).
Note: Lyrics of "I want to live", "Rain and tears" and "It's five o'clock" are printed in the booklet of the CD:
Saga (Demis Roussos) 1990: EMI France ( 7956-472).
Lyrics of "Sping, Summer, Winter and Fall" are printed in the booklet of the CD:
Tra due sogni (Milva) 1996: Metronome (829 987-2).
The lyrics of "let me love, let me live" are printed on a (rare) special lyrics-sheet.

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Spring, summer, winter and fall lyrics

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never to unwind

Spring, summer, winter and fall
are in everything
I know in love we had them all
now our love is gone

This last thing
is passing now
like summer to spring
it takes me
and wakes me now
like seasons i'll change
and then re-arrange some how

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never to unwind

[interlude]

this last thing
is passing now
like summer to spring
it takes me
and wakes me now
like seasons i'll change
and then re-arrange some how

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never, never to unwind

Spring, summer, winter and fall
are in everything
I know in love we had them all
now our love is gone

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Such a funny night lyrics

Oh, it's morning 
and my head is spinning 'round
I had a girl when I came in
But when I woke up she was gone...

[interlude]

Oh, it's morning 
and my head is spinning 'round
I had a girl when I came in
But when I woke up she was gone...

[interlude]

Oh, it's morning 
and my head is spinning 'round
I had a girl when I came in
But when I woke up she was gone...

[interlude]

Oh, it's morning 
and my head is spinning 'round
I had a girl when I came in
But when I woke up she was gone...

la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la
[etc.]

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I want to live lyrics

I want to live
Where they'll change what they have done
Yeah

I must die
cold and shunned by the sun
Yeah

Why should I stay
Where there are people that hate
The things I need
and making me wait
yeah

They will teach you the hows instead of the why's
They will turn your truth into lies

I feel like crying
when I'm groping for a way
to stop it from going
cause I want it,
want it to stay
Yeah

They will teach you the hows instead of the why's
They will turn your truth into lies

I want to live
try, look and understand
I needed you to take hold of my hand
and pull me up, yeah
I feel but I can't, yeah
(Yes I do)
I want to, I want to live
Yes, I want to live yeah, yeah
To feel and...
[I'm gonna lose it, yeah]

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You always stand in my way

Hey you
You always stand in my way

You
will you hear to what I say?
I want you to go away

You
You should find another man

I say you
make my face become one
I want you to cut it down

You, you, you
get away 
I can't stand you, 
you, you
I am mad when I see you
you, you you
better hide or clutch your face

You
you come on and change your mind

Say you
You're the one I must cement
and what if I don't want you

You
You always stand in my way

And I said you
Will you hear to what I say
And I want you to go away

You you, you
get away 
I can't stand you, 
you you

I am mad when I see you
You, you better pack up all your things
and I, I, I feel like chewing so I'm getting mad,
baby

And I said you
you, you always stand in my way
(better not)

You
will you hear to what I say
I want you to go away

You
you should find another man
I said you
make my face become one
I want you to cut it down

you, you, you
got a way I can't stand
you you, you, you
get away 
I can't stand

you
You you you better hide and clutch your face
And I, I, I feel it
You better say
you, you, you

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Rain and tears lyrics

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game

When you cry
in winter time
you can pretend
it's nothing but the rain

How many times I've seen
tears coming from your blue eyes

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game

[interlude]
Give me an answer, love
(o----ooohhh)
I need an answer,  love
(o----ooohhh)
Rain and tears in the sun
But in your heart
you feel the rainbow waves

Rain and tears
both I shun
for in my heart there 'll never be a sun

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game
Game ...

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Let me love, let me live lyrics

I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do
I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do

I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give
I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give

I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do
I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do

I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give
I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give

[Interlude]

I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do
I fear death
I just wanna groove 
I just wanna live
I got so much to do

I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give
I need time
I like the way I live
and not to lose it all
I have so much to give

[Interlude]

Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live

[Interlude]

Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
Let me love, let me live
......

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Don't try to catch a river lyrics

When she flows
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river,

River flows over rocks and walls,
and I'd like to know why,
She seems to be  far away from the sky.

When she flows,
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(Don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river.

Lovers leave their girls at sunrise,
and I'd like to know why,
They seem to be so ashamed of the size,

Don't you try
Don't you try
Don't you try
Don't you try

River
River
River

When she flows,
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(Don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river.

River carries along dead leaves,
And I'd like to know why,
Why don't lovers bring along wounded hearts.

River
River
River

Oehh ... River...
Oehh ... River...
River...

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It's five o'clock lyrics

It's five o'clock
and I walk through the empty streets
thoughts fill my head
but then still
No one speaks to me
My mind takes me back
to the years that have passed me by

[interlude]

It is so hard te believe
that it's me
that I see
in the window pane
It it so hard to believe
that all this the way
that it has to be
It's five o'clock
and I walk through the empty streets
The night is my friend
And in him
I find sympathy

thus so
And so I go back to the years that have past me by

[interlude]

It is so hard to believe
that it's me
that I see
in the window pane
It it so hard to believe
that all this the way
that it has to be

It's five o'clock
and I walk through the empty streets
The night is my friend
And in him I find sympathy
He gives me day
gives me hope
and a little dream too

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Wake up lyrics

Talking, people talking
But I can't understand just what they say
The thoughts that fill my head about tomorrow
What am I to do about today?

Looking, people looking
But I can't understand just what they see
If I shut my eyes sometimes it is much better
But how long can I go on living this way?

Laughing, people laughing
The people are the same in every land
Do they laugh because they have no way of crying?
Or cry because they have no way to laugh?

Freedom, they want freedom
Can this feeling be reality?
Till one day the silly people will be asking
For an apple that has come before the tree

Answers, who has the answers?
To all the questions that we have to ask?
I can show you how to find a good solution
Aphrodite's Child will tell you on the back

[interlude]

pom pom pom ......

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End of the world lyrics

You should come with me to the end of the world
without telling your parents and your friends
You know that you only need
say a word
So end my play with thy
end of the world

But I know
that I'll go... away by myself
I feel you don't want to come

You should come with me to the end of the world
We could lie all day on the quiet sands
I would introduce you to my friend the bird
who sings and flies along the fairy strand

But I know
that I'll go... away by myself
I feel you don't want to come

he---e, ha---a

If you come with me to the end of the world
I'll give you anything that lives on earth

You know that you only need
say a word
So we might live at the end of the world

What I know
that I'll go... away by myself
I feel you don't want to come

he---e, ha---a

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