Lyrics-Ioannidis Nikolaos. Be a master of your fate

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Song info:

Genre: classical. Arrangement: 12-string guitar, electric guitar, vocals, drums, bass, keyboard. Lyrical subject: the need for social and political change, not by means of mass struggle but by a change in the mentality and attitudes of individuals. Music, lyrics, arrangement : IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS Performance: IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

LYRICS

Be a master of your fate!

Thought you were unable to know

what's right and wrong;

so let decisions be made for you,

plotted behind closed doors.

Trusted property and life

with those who mastered lying;

who are always doing the unjust

and always justifying.

Now you're angry;

you declare, you'll no more endure;

where your anger to direct, really not being sure.

Sick and tired, can stand no more

being silent and paying;

you feel you can demand much more;

you need to have a say.

Be a master of your fate! Take life in your hands!

No more enemy of change! Time to be a friend.

Needn't shout, needn't take to the streets;

hold your mind still!

this rebellion' s bloodshed free;

all it takes is will.

LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

Musical Works

ESSAYS on music and media

ANCIENT GREEK TEXTS translated into English by N. Ioannidis

ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS reconstructed by N. Ioannidis and used in the ancient Greek recordings

N. Ioannidis is a composer, lyricist, guitar soloist and multi-instrumentalist performer (BA Music & Media Studies, MA Digital Media Studies, currently doctoral candidate in Musicology at the University of Sussex) who is researching ancient Greek music and its relationship with all musical cultures, that have been subject to classical Greek cultural influence.