LYRICS - IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS: Be a master of your fate!

Song title: Be a master of your fate!

CD album: Be a master of your fate!

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, Performance : IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS -

Ioannidis N. is a composer, musicologist, multi-instrumentalist performer, media theorist, and digital media creative producer (with formal qualifications in Music, Musicology, Media Studies, and Digital Media Studies)

 

 

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Other musical works by

IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

CD ALBUM: The Music of Ancient Greeks - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry  An approach to the original singing of ancient Greek epic and lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C. with the use of 
  ancient Greek and contemporary folk instruments (ancient kithara, folk woodwinds- zournas, ney, flogera- classical guitar, ethnic percussion).

CD ALBUM: Mass insanity  Political songs dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the moral and cultural decadence of modern society,  globalization, terrorism.

Diversity of styles (blending of Ethnic, Rock, Classical), exhibition of guitar virtuosity (electric guitar,  fretless electric guitar, 12-string guitar), and ethnic percussion performance.

CD ALBUM: 12-string Guitar Works  Instrumentals of the 12-string classical guitar featuring various performance techniques (Western and Near Eastern)

CD ALBUM: Music and Religion Religious music from different cultures (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant) 

English opera Oedipus Rex  Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" edited by IOANNIDIS

CD ALBUM: AREN'T YOU FED UP? .Classical, Rock, Ethnic songs with political lyrical subjects

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MP3 files of all songs are available for downloading at the Ioannidis Mp3 page

 

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LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY

IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

 

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ANCIENT  GREEK TEXTS  translated into  English  by N. Ioannidis

 

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

 

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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.

 

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