Tasos Rosopoulos’ song cycle Songs About a Return, for voice, guitar, violoncello, and electronics, creates a single musical narrative about desire and the painful process of return. It is a journey that starts with nostalgia but gradually transcends its geographical destination, turning decay and the changes brought by the passage of time into an absolute measure of experience. The cycle’s text draws on poems, translations, distinct words, and quotes by Kostas Ouranis, Giorgos Koropoulis, Dionysis Kapsalis, Giannis Varveris, Tellos Agras, Homer, and an anonymous 16th-century Cypriot poet, as well as Wilhelm Müller and Heinrich Heine.