WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

tags:LEMONIA ===> SUMMER BLAST ==> A DREAM OF LONG AGO

"NISSAKI" LONG BEACH
21/7/2008


WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
(Narrative 1)

What happens now? But how should I know?
I'm sure she is that dream of long ago!
in silence she came and then she went,
mysterious apparition, heaven sent.

What happens now? Was she really there?
I must believe my eyes but I don’t dare,
she stayed in this table next to mine,
now she's gone and I don’t know her line.

Who was she? What's her number? What's her name?
I want to know from what place she came,
is she a German girl on holydays?
A dream of long ago that comes in waves?

She stayed for an hour and she was shinning,
her presence for my dream was re-defining,
more beautiful than my wildest hope,
less than two weeks before my horoscope.

The sun goes into Lion after tomorrow,
my search in all her signs must be thorough,
who could I ask to find out something more?
There's no one I could trust on this sea shore.

Sofia, Nectaria, would be gossiping,
seeing me paying to her a goddess worshiping,
intelligent the Germans, not emotional,
the Greeks, they may be so, but only notional.

I cannot really ask a lot about her,
she is my dream, therefore I'm free to doubt her,
she doesn't exist, she must have been a fairy,
she came out of this blue as I was weary.

My day by this dream illuminated,
which suddenly appears emancipated,
she is a dream no longer, she's my fate,
she is a woman and I'll be her mate.

So, will she pass again from this taverna joint?
Perhaps she won't, but that is not the point,
these passing tourists, they just come and go,
but I'll find out what I want to know.

I want to hear her voice, tales narrating me,
I want to feel her smile penetrating me,
I want to know her name, just to write a song,
I want her for my woman, whether right or wrong.

There's nothing wrong with love, that's how I feel,
it is an act of will beyond my will,
I love her whether she'll respond or not,
even a dream sometimes can be caught.

*****

She does exist, here she was a while ago,
what happens now? Maybe soon I'll know,
she smiled and she took a look around her,
"My God", I thought, "At least now I have found her!"

*****

She spoke with those two girls, I heard her voice,
she looked at me, she gave me a smile,
I fell in love with her, I had no choice,
in love with both, her beauty and her style.

Then she got up and she approached my table,
where her tobacco earlier she had left,
she took with it my heart into her fable,
It was a day light open theft.

Smiling she returned to her position,
smoking and talking and emerging fast,
believing still, she was an apparition,
I've heard somewhere around a summer blast.

My conscience exploding to receive her,
my vision getting blind in her sign,
my heart flying away to believe her,
my brain trying her presence to define.

I know it's you, my dream of long ago,
of my existence still you're not aware,
but you reveal to me all I should know,
you ask me to love you and so I dare.

*****

So, as I fall in love you keep emerging,
you take substance, you become concrete,
your North into my South is now merging,
I welcome Germany to South Crete.

I do not really know how old you are,
you seem to have been born before Big Bang,
that's when I was born also, in time far,
and ever since, your coming I have sang.

*****

Ok! Since you are here, what should we do?
Should I not try to make you to love me?
Should we not make love and share this blue?
Should we not go to swim in this blue sea?

I know well by just looking at you,
that all these things with me you want to share,
this dream of long ago coming true,
making us fall in love, it's only fair.

*****

But then I look around and you're not there,
what happened? I was speaking with the boss,
to play music and to have fun fare,
and so you went and I am at a loss.

The other two still there, but you're not,
you were then, like I thought, a day dream,
I put away again this crazy thought,
maybe you went to the sea to have a swim.

I want to ask Sofia, but I fret,
she probably will think that I am mad:
"Was this a day dream that I've just met?"
"No", she would say, "She was a lass, my lad!

"But why are you interested in this lass?
She's beautiful, but she's a bit too young!"
I do not ask my question, I think, "Pass,
but in this place from now on, I will hung.

"She may come again, you never know,
I may see her face once again,
She is the dream I had, of long ago,
The only thing to fix is where and when".

*****

"I'll come tomorrow maybe for a swim,
and if I'm lucky I will see her here,
but I will come no longer for a dream,
I'll come hoping to find her somewhere near.

I'll walk about up and down this beach,
if she's in a hotel I'm sure to find her,
I have to make mine this young witch,
without her knowing that I run behind her.

Maybe tonight she will come to eat,
in this taverna where she had her swimming,
maybe in social terms we two could meet,
my God, I think I'm still in my day dreaming!"

*****

Sofia says, "This Wednesday we start!"
My mind is somewhere else but I say, "right!"
I think it would be tactful and smart,
If I invite her for this Music Night.

An idiot I am, now it's too late,
The girl is gone and I don’t know her name,
my dream of long ago is now my fate,
and I am loosing yet again the game.

Oh no, I will find her cause I must,
she will not fly away from me this time,
this dream of long ago of love and lust,
this dream in my whole life most sublime.

*****

I waited there and the hours past,
I had my swim and then I went to town,
your song inside me with raki I hushed,
and I came back all-drunk and melted down.

I had forgotten all about you,
familiar ghosts were still haunting my place,
this "PAX PUTANA" song was all I knew,
and so with that I gave to them a chasse.

They flew away but when I was alone,
loneliness was a thing I did not like,
I smoked a joint, so, all-drunk and stone,
I fell asleep with morning on its bike.

What happens now? What happens when I wake?
Shall I come down to the beach for you?
Will you be there? Are you true or fake?
Whatever, we're both swimming in this blue!