The Golden Age of Athens - Messolonghi Cultural Centre Choir

Lyrics by：Emma Rohan

Composed by：Giannis Georgantelis

When the city comes alive with the evening song

We dance in the shadow of the great Parthenon

A gift to our goddess to Athena we pray

Built by the world that Pericles made

We bask in the glory with freedom of speech

Where words of the pauper weigh the same as the rich

Democracy might not be fair as it seems

The living comfort we now live in disease

We live in disease

Now Sparta is posed with their envious words

Demanding a taste of what's rightfully ours

Times are changing we're told to withdraw

Into our city behind walls of grandeur

O glorious athens arise and we'll sing

And all the soldiers of sparta will bring

Pericles will lead us and fields burn on fire

So we can return to the life we desire

The life we desire

But we dare not say what the future will bring

If the enemy conquers we lose everything

So we pray to athena to keep us here safe

And pericles not to seal our fate

We pray to athena to keep us here safe

And pericles not to seal our fate

Not to seal our fate not to seal our fate

Not to seal our fate