Name: This Village Is Too Small
Duration: P00H10M01S
Description: We jump back to the 1930's and meet Christos & Sofia from the village of Lefkoniko in Cyprus as they move to London and prepare for the war.

This Village Is Too Small

from thirty days 3 by solo project

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We jump back to the 1930's and meet Christos & Sofia from the village of Lefkoniko in Cyprus as they move to London and prepare for the war.

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This village is too small
Can I make more than this?
Without sweet Anorthosis
Or would I just fall?

Born and raised in Lefkoniko
Hearing rumours of a war
Across the sea
We would be another colonial casualty

Oh to move to London
Oh to see my cousins
Who left here years ago

The english never listen
To our position
Might as well claim my stake
Of the commonwealth.

There was a girl called Sophia
My name is Christos, nice to meet ya
Her family lived up the hill

Up until
They went away
To live near Turnpike Lane

One more coffee
One more song
One more walk along the beach where I belong

One more Sunday
One more swim

If you pack up your life
Where do you begin?
Where do you begin?

One year in the city
Got a job at a factory
And how I miss everybody
Nothing is the same
They didn’t lie about the rain

At a greek welcoming party
From the crowd, It can’t be
Sophia with her family
As I walk, she shouts my name

Oh how glad now
That I came
To the city

Five years later to the day
The war has started, papers say
So we learn how to behave
Bomb shelter training days

Sophia beside me
And our two babies
We got married in the spring
This place is not the same
Lefkoniko remains
In my soul
I sure hope
It always stays

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from thirty days 3, released March 12, 2021

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