Kontakion
Kontakion or Kondakion (Greek: κοντάκιον, transl. kontakion; Old Church Slavonic: Кондакъ, transl. Kondakə) is a form of hymn performed in the Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite. There is also a chant book named after the hymn genre kontakion, the Kontakarion (Greek: κοντακάριον) or Kondakar (Old Church Slavonic: Кондакар). The kontakarion is not just a collection of kontakia, within the tradition of the cathedral rite (like the rite practiced at the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople) it became the name of the book of the prechanter or lampadarios, also now as "psaltikon", which contained all the soloistic parts of hymns sung during the morning service and the Divine Liturgy. Because the kontakia were usually sung by protopsaltes during the morning services, the first part for the morning service with its prokeimena and kontakia was the most voluminous part, so it was simply called kontakarion.
Etymology
The word derives from the Greek word κόνταξ, kontax, meaning pole, specifically the pole around which a scroll is wound. The term describes the way in which the words on a scroll unfurl as it is read. The word was originally used to describe an early Byzantine poetic form, whose origins date back certainly as far as the 6th century AD, and possibly earlier.
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We Can Love
by: Candye KaneHere we are
After years of love
We're thinking of goodbye
And it's hard
Not to feel your touch
When I hurt so much tonight
Lying here, pretending we're sleeping
We're both wide awake
Should we hold on to what we've got
Or go our separate ways?
CHORUS:
We can run, we can hide
And just turn away and hold our hurt inside
Take our pride and walk away
We can stand, we can fall
Now it's time for us to win or lose it all
We can run, we can hide
Or we can love
In the dark
I can hide the truth
I wish that you could see
In my heart
What I want most
Is to hug you close to me
Why can't we just talk to each other
Admit we've made mistakes
If I won't bend and you won't give
Our hearts are bound to break
CHORUS:
We can run, we can hide
And just turn away and hold our hurt inside
Take our pride and walk away
We can stand, we can fall
Now it's time for us to win or lose it all
We can run, we can hide
Or we can love
We can run, we can hide
And just turn away and hold our hurt inside
Take our pride and walk away
We can run, we can hide
Just turn away and hold our hurt inside
Take our pride and walk away
We can run, we can hide
And just turn away and hold our hurt inside
Take our pride and walk away
We can run, we can hide
And just turn away and hold our hurt inside