Vangelis and Aphrodite's Child lyrics - 666 lyrics

CD: I
	1		The System		0:23
	2		Babylon		2:47
	3		Loud Loud Loud		2:42
	4		The Four Horsemen		5:54
*	5		The Lamb		4:33
	6		The Seventh Seal		1:30
	7		Aegian Sea		5:22
	8		Seven Bowls		1:29
*	9		The Wakening Beast		1:11
	10		Lament		2:45
*	11		The Marching Beast		2:00
*	12		The Battle Of The Locusts		0:56
	13		Do It		1:44
*	14		Tribulation		0:32
	15		The Beast		2:26
	16		Ofis		0:14
			Total playing time		36:27
CD: II
	1		Seven Trumpets		0:35
	2		Altamont		4:33
*	3		The Wedding Of The Lamb		3:38
*	4		The Capture Of The Beast		2:17
	5		Infinity symbol		5:15
	6		Hic And Nunc		2:55
	7		All The Seats Were Occupied		19:19
	8		Break		2:58
			Total playing time		41:33

Aphrodite's Child was formed in 1967 by Vangelis (keyboards), together with his musician friends Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals),
Lucas Sideras (drums and vocals) and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar).
But when the group went to Paris in 1968 Koulouris had to stay in Greece (for military service).

The first single was released in 1968: "Plastics nevermore" / "The other people" (as a demo for Philips).
The single "Rain and Tears", released in May 1968 was a huge success all over the world.
The first album: "End of the world" was relased in 1968.
In 1969 Aphrodite's Child released their second album "It's five o'clock".
In 1970 Vangelis started working on the album "666", when Silver Koulouris joined Aphrodite's Child.
The album was relased in 1971 (when the group has split up).

* Instrumental
Music composed and produced by Vangelis.
lyrics and concept book written by Costas Ferris
Copyright is owned by: Spheric B.V. Holland and SDRM and Jam Music and Polygram International Music B.V.

Lyrics taken from the CD booklet. Except: "The system", Ofis, and Infinity"= received from Costas Ferris.

Important background information about this album can be found at: The "666" story page

The system lyrics

* It's obviously ironic, as you cannot "fuck" a system by another system!
Those lyrics were inspired by Abbie Hoffmann's manifesto "Fuck the System".
Irony and sarcasm, are the two keys to understand this peculiar "666".

Babylon lyrics

Loud, loud, loud lyrics

The four horsemen lyrics

The seventh seal lyrics

Aegian sea lyrics

Seven bowls lyrics

Lament lyrics

Do it lyrics *

* Do it! is a reference to the book of Jerry Rubin

The beast lyrics

*  (In Greek) let's go - go for the climax
** Scat singing: As all of this transcription is phonetical, "Doin" at the end is to be pronunced as written, not "dùin" (Special thanks to Ugo Coppola).
*** we are closing here, remember?

Ofis lyrics

*It's a famous line from the Greek shadow theatre Karagiozis, from the play
"Karagiozis, Alexander the Great and the Cursed Serpent".

Seven trumpets lyrics

Altamont lyrics

Infinity lyrics

*[note: The words are: "I am to come" and "I was to come"
She begins to blend the two together as she gets in to it (the song), and some times, it it more like: "I was, I am, I was, I was, I am to come."
It is the inversion of "Who was, is, is to come" of the Revelation, attributed to the Good.
Here, the "Bad", (the Beast, 666) turns this phrase into Ego, (first person),
and tries to be born again, or to give birth to another Ego, or to "make love" to is own self and so on.
Vicious circle.]

Hic and nunc lyrics

All the seats were occupied lyrics

* Taken from the recording of a BBC Teaching English lesson

Break lyrics *

*As about the syllables you hear, it is Vangelis' voice, "answering" to Lucas by the jazz doo-wap technique: "stoobeedooobedoo..." and so on. It was Vangelis way of making fun to the song.
These are transcribed phonetically, and although there are some actual words like "day" and "bait", the whole thing is obviously not intented as real words. (Special thanks to Ugo Coppola).

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