Interpretation of “Minor adulterations” by Vasilis Papakonstantinou Minor adulterations Singer: Vasilis Papakonstantinou Lyrics: Odysseas Ioannou Music: Thanos Mikroutsikos Never did he manage to reach a sunshine and lives with whatever remains of a scrapped poem The mornings he gets up with heavy dizziness and says a great wave woke him up He hangs his posters on his windows Hides the light but also hides everything else because the only thing he desired as plunder was a sea that stretches to the stairs He sets marks on his wall with a pen Measures his height that he loses bit by bit But each night when he gets out of his slumber he stands up and pierces through the roof It is that he dreams of embarking on journeys that he gets into old pictures He knows if he could he would do more of…