Second Place Dysphoria

Based on Croatia 2003
Claudia Beni — Više nisam tvoja

Ah, ah
What all us Croatians want,
is the victory.
Many years already passed since 1993.
I grant you this, we did not have always
top notch singers -true dis- some were horrible!
But when all hope was lost into this,
a Rijekan with bleached hair, almost prevailed!

Second place dysphoria, feels like melancholia
Let 3 dressed in dark košuljica.
Now there is no need for Zagreb renovations,
we will head to Switzerland.
Forgot their capital!

And what bothers me the most,
(Act as if you care)
is that in the 1990’s Croats should have won.
Then you know who they debut into this,
with a ballad -foolish- win’s not possible!
Then the votes come and they get trophies,
and instead of screaming no, we say bravo!
Oh Oh

Second place dysphoria gives me paranoia
rim tim tagi dim is voljena.
Super hard to get one better – just forget it!
We will end up like Malta ah ah
our old buddy Malta ❤️

What bums me out is that people voted
for Croatian beauties, not winner Nemo.
And I know we’re less hit and more miss,
gives me migraine, vertigo- oh oh!

(Tony, Mia, Nina, Let 3, Severina)
(Maja Blagdan, Magazin and Lidija)
(Claudia Beni, Vanna, Boris, Doris, Daria)
(Vesna, Goran, Daniela)

Lost in nostalgija, I recall Emilija
the lead singer of the Riva band.
Ah Ah
They rocked Yugoslavia, gave us the Pobeda!
But they were Croatian, they gave us gloria!
Ah Ah
So no dysphoria.

Very small Croatian to English dictionary (act as if you care):
Košuljica: (in context) A ladylike blouse
Voljena: Beloved
Pobeda: Victory