"Dio portes echi i zoi" (

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: Δύο πόρτες έχει η ζωή; en, Life has two doors), sometimes billed as "Tora pou fevgo ap' ti zoi" or "To telefteo vrady mou", is a Greek-language song (

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) performed by popular

singers

Stelios Kazantzidis Stelios Kazantzidis (Greek: Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης; 29 August 1931 – 14 September 2001) was one of the most prominent Greek singers. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's fore ...

and

Marinella Marinella ( el, Μαρινέλλα) (born 20 May 1938, Thessaloniki) is one of the most popular Greek singers whose career has spanned several decades. She has sung professionally since 1957. Since the beginning of her career, she has release ...

. The lyrics are by

Eftichia Papagianopoulos Eftichia Papagianopoulou ( el, Ευτυχία Παπαγιαννοπούλου), also spelled as Eftihia Papagianopoulou (1893 – 7 January 1972), was a Greek lyricist. She was born in Aydın near Smyrna (now İzmir) in Asia Minor in 1893. She ...

and the music is by Kazantzidis himself. The song was first released on 78 rpm vinyl record in 1959 by

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. The record also contained the song "

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" and sold about 100,000 pieces in its year of release, beating the previous record of 45,000 record sales that

Hadjidakis Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; el, Μάνος Χατζιδάκις; 23 October 1925 – 15 June 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely considered to be one of the greatest Greek composers and one of the most ...

song "Garifallo st' afti" had set.Kαζαντζίδης Στέλιος - Βιογραφία
Kazantzidis Stelios - Biography at ''musipedia.gr'' (in greek)

Personnel

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, arranger, conductor *

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

- producer

Lyrics

Greek original

Transliteration

To teleftaío vrádi mou
apópse to pernáo
ki ósoi me píkranan polí,
tóra pou fev́go ap’ ti zoí,
ólous tous sighornáo. Óla eínai éna pséma,
mia anása, mia pnoḯ,
sa louloúdi kápoio héri
tha más kópsi mian avyí. Ekí pou páo den perná
to dákri kai o pónos.
Ta vásana kai oi kaïmoí
edó tha mínoun sti zoí
ki egó tha fígo mónos. Óla eínai éna pséma,
mia anása, mia pnoḯ,
sa louloúdi kápoio héri
tha más kópsi mian avyí. Dio pórtes éhei i zoí.
Ánoixa mia kai bíka.
Seryiánisa éna proinó
ki óspou na ’rthi to dilinó,
apó tin álli vyíka. Óla eínai éna pséma,
mia anása, mia pnoḯ,
sa louloúdi kápoio héri
tha más kópsi mian avyí.

Translation

My last night
is tonight
and those who have hurt me a lot
now that I’m leaving this life
I forgive them all. Everything is a lie
a breath, a sigh
like a flower, someone’s hand
will cut us, one day. Where I’m going, there are no
tears and pain
no worries, no sorrow.
They will stay here, in this life
and I’ll leave alone. Everything is a lie
a breath, a sigh
like a flower, someone’s hand
will cut us, one day. Life has two doors.
I opened one and entered.
Οne morning I went for a walk
and till the nightfall,
I came out through the other door. Everything is a lie
a breath, a sigh
like a flower, someone’s hand
will cut us, one day.

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