Your opened heart
Embraces my mind
And your soft skin
Touches my pain
I don’t believe that I’ve found you

Freedom, freedom
Generosity and passion
If you aren’t willing sacrifice
How can you find yourself? 
How can you understand?

Your cold hands
They brought me a home
Your shinning eyes 
Show me the way
Am I dreaming? 
Am I dreaming?

Freedom, freedom
Generosity and passion
If you aren’t willing sacrifice
How can you find yourself? 
How can you understand?


Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
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Emotional Intelligence

Generosity

I am looking for those eyes
That will love me limitlessly
that will see me
Body and soul, as I am
Anxious, desperate
Full of fears and dreams
Joyful memories, moments of laugh, 
Always being unsatisfied with the now
And thus, always seeking, struggling

People open your heart
And open your mind 
And then you’ll find

That we are equal
We are the same
I need you, and you need me
What a beautiful, beautiful thing 
To share in our lives

You are looking for those eyes 
That will love you limitlessly
that will see you 
Body and soul, as you are
Stressful, peaceful

People open your heart
And open your mind 
And then you’ll find

That we are equal 
We are the same
I need you, and you need me
What a beautiful, beautiful thing 
To share in our lives

Composition, Lyrics, Guitar: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Synthesizers, Arrangement: Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence
©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

EMotional Intelligence

I Am Looking For Those Eyes

She was staring me from her window
As the rain poured down on me
Her whole being was shinning
That innocence was healing me

Don’t cry my love, you are breaking my heart
I am feeling so guilty for this ugly world
Corrupted people you will meet, demanding power security
Embrace them with love, love, love

Have I ever looked around me?
Have I ever seen the other’s pain?
Have I ever felt compassion?
For another human being

Why do I always blame?
All these people around me
I am frightened for our children
Where are we heading to?

There is no life without love
but we are living without love
And when I am free, then I can only see
That love doesn’t demand, doesn’t expect, doesn’t belong to no one

There is no life without love
and we are living without love

Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Vocal accompaniment: Anastasios Xenodochidis
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Feelings of Guilt

Mama, there is no care
And they prepare for another war
Darling spread out the word
That only love can heal that world

Mama, look at your children
They can sing they can draw
Children put your shoes on
Get outside and run

Mama my heart is cryin’
Mama I must not speak

Looks like you don’t have a voice
But you do have a choice
Obey to your superiors
Obey to your superiors
Obey to your superiors

Mama my heart is cryin’
Mama I must not speak
Cause I am considered for another sheep

Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Narration: Milen Angelov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Mama

See the children
Playing in the yard
Hear their voices
They will wake you up
But you are missing 
To that boring job
Taking orders 
Trying to fix your future

I want to crawl 
Like a baby on the grass
I want to smell 
The life’s perfume

I want to crawl 
Like a baby on the grass
I want to smell 
The life’s perfume

There must be something, something, something
That makes you happy 
That makes you young
And when you’ll find it 
Touch it, feel it, flourish it, embrace it

There must be something, something, something
That makes you happy that makes you young
And when you’ll find it, touch it, feel it, flourish it, embrace it
And don’t forget to embrace the life’s perfume

Composition, Guitars, Lyrics: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Life's Perfume

I saw a man wandering in the mountains
He was convicted by staying alone
I saw a man, I saw a free man

Composition, Guitar, Lyrics: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Clarinet: Dimitrios Malogiannis
Percussions: Boyan Todorov-Pufi
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Free Man

Composition, Guitar: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Clarinet: Dimitrios Malogiannis
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

For My Milena

Am I happy? Am I really happy?

Ι climbed up the hill and I contemplated my life from above
Without any romantic sense or prejudice
Without any guilt or judgement
In all seriousness, responsibility and passion
That each human being must have on this planet
If I'm not being honest with myself 
I will never be able to give an answer to this fundamental question 
And to that, the answer can only be given by me

Am I happy? Am I really happy?

From an early age
I've been observing a society 
Whose whole structure 
Is based on hierarchy, fear, obedience
The promotion of a unit and not of the unity
A society that turns its back on one's inner world 
And is mainly interested in the outer
A humanity that tolerates poverty
The pretty little lies 
As long as the needs and aspirations of the one are satisfied 
A society that always relies on messianism
While the real solution is within us, next to us
In the tears of our fellow man
In the screams of a mother

Still, I observe a society based on concurrence
Wrecked by the media's and so-called God's messengers' propaganda
Always accusing its superiors while we, as a herd 
Keep being weak-willed
Accepting war in every aspect of our life 
As if it is something normal
Eventually, when we realise the insanity of the whole situation 
We seek shelter in countries 
Religions, political parties
An action that then makes us believe we are secure/responsible
Why don’t we see the facts as they are? 
Why do discord and conflict prevail in modern culture?
Why do social classes exist? Why do laws exist? 
The sole answer to these questions is ego
Because my corrupted ego always surpasses yours

My eyes and soul show me that, in reality
There is only one crisis, the inner crisis

I want to live in a world without any barriers
In this beautiful world only justice, compassion
Generosity, kindness and love will exist

My eyes and soul reveal to me the inner crisis

If you want to bring peace, unity
Then you’ll have to reconsider, think deeper
Before labelling yourself, what are you?
You are human

You know, the first moment you came into this world
You came as a human and you’ll leave from it the same way
Everything else is of minor importance
First and foremost you are human
You are human, you are human, please don’t forget that 
You are human, and I am human, all we are human beings
You are human


Composition, Guitars, Lyrics, Narration: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Edit Unjian
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
MIxing, Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis

Inner Crisis

Here I am, at the end of the road
It’s just me and the universe
Infinite space, infinite time
Why am I feeling so alive?

No purpose, no direction
No effort, just affection
I am feeling so empty
What a beauty, living in peace
Living in peace, living in peace

All the burdens of yesterday
And all the struggles of tomorrow
All the anxieties and fears
Just gone, vanished


Composition, Guitars, Lyrics, Vocals: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
Mixing, Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis

Living in Peace

General, this is the president
Prepare for war

Mother, father
Just tell them that
Life matters
Don’t throw your life away
Don’t live in illusions
Don’t be fooled by their propaganda, propaganda
Yeah mother don’t listen to their propaganda
Mother, father
That was your son

Don’t be afraid my child
God is on our side

You must plunder for your country
You must kill for your country
And that means women
Children, innocent people

Soldiers, pick up your weapons
You have your orders 
Shoot at will
Oh God, what a mad world
What a mad world!
We are giving to our children

What’s our children’s future?

You mother
who supposed to love and care for your child
Do you want to see it kill 
Or to be killed?
Have you ever considered it? 
Do you really love it?

And you father, yeah you
Who supposed to hug it and love it and protect it
Can you really protect it? 
During war

Mother, your son is gone to be killed
Father, your daughter’s child will never be born

Mother, your son is gone to be killed
Father, your daughter’s child will never be born

Life is the most precious thing in the world
More than your pride for your nation for your God
And if you don’t see that, don’t comprehend that then
War is knocking on your door



Composition, Guitars, Lyrics, Vocals: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
Saxophone: Venelin Georgiev
Mixing, Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis

P.S. Repercussions

Xenos is a progressive and psychedelic rock composer from Greece influenced by Pink Floyd, The Doors and many others. He is a self-taught musician who loves to experiment with different genres of music. Xenos' purpose is to unfold facts of our daily life that provoke conflict, initially, inwardly and then outwardly.  The Inner Crisis project focuses on subjects like pure love and inner crisis (the crisis within oneself) with the ultimate goal of peace.