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Digamma (or wau, uppercase Ϝ, lowercase ϝ; as a numeral symbol: stigma, ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later remained in use only as a numeral symbol for the number "6". Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma, while in its numeral function it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era. Today the numeral sign is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ (ϛ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.
Digamma/wau was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from Phoenician. Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet, between epsilon and zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed at the end of the Greek alphabet. Digamma/wau is in turn the ancestor of the Latin letter F. As an alphabetic letter it is attested in archaic and dialectal ancient Greek inscriptions until the classical period.
I just want to live my life for you
Feel your presence was the first thing for me
See my soul, crying this tears for the best friend I had
That I had, I miss you
Waking up this morning and I'm feeling sad and lost
Looking down this bed that will remain so empty
I'll be there all day long I'll take care of you
Save our love, don't look back don't believe what they say
Take my heart away, so far away, it's no
T too late
It's not too late for me
In the clothes, I can see a little shapes of you
Who's to blame, for this shame I'm dressing on
We walk this road without fear
I will deny all these lies
Take my hands and take my life, ride the stars through this night
Can I help you this time
Take my dreams away, so far away, it's not too late