Dobromir’s Peeve

Based on Ireland 1999
The Mullans — When You Need Me

So, love is never easy
But being lonely's worse
I got back in the game
For a man who I could tame

Then, online, I found him
A sexy slavic man
Could just sit there on that face
And I had a master plan

And there he was, my knight, and so much more
But then his smile vanished in the door

"Libe no! Dear God no!
Special girl for me, don't you know??
Libe dear, listen here
Scented candles, libe dear
They're my peeve
You should've known
нос е крив..."

Fast I quenched the candles
Felt so stupid too
But then when I apologized
His eyes showed love enough for two

They say the way to seduce
The hearts of hunky men
Is to conquer their tastebuds
For this stud I cooked lots

"Libe no! Ew yuck NO!
Special girl for me, don't you know??
Libe dear, listen here
Coriander, libe dear
That's my peeve
Гнусно!"

With nothing left to loose, I dragged him in
Bared my cheeks, to plant him in-between

"Libe no! Libe NO!!!
Special girl for me, don't you know??
Libe dear, listen here
Squeaky bedframes, libe dear
They're my peeve"
Dear Dobromir
You're my peeve

I Spit on Children

Based on Germany 1982
Nicole — Ein bißchen Frieden

With baby blue eyes and gold-coloured curls
A radiant smile and teeth whiter than pearls
Natural makeup, a black and white dress
The dark truth you'd never guess

Her sweet appearance is all but sincere,
inspired by Siegel, the great puppeteer,
If you listen closely, it's all crystal clear
Her message spreads hate and fear

I spit on children, I spit with gusto
I cough and rattle, it's almost ammo
To spit on children is up-and-coming
It is rewarding, so join the team

I'm scaring children, I make them suffer
I'm pulling pranks on the little fuckers
To scare the children while they were sleeping
enhanced my feeling of ecstasy!

Resembling an angel, she almost looks real
A voice that can comfort, a smile you could steal
But she has no shadow, her thumb leaves no print
She's payback for our sins

I swear at children, they're so annoying
I call them names and walk past them groaning
To swear at children is so fulfilling
My favorite hobby, it brings me joy

I'm teasing children, those little critters
They should be grateful that I don't hit them
Harassing children is an obsession
Yet torture is still one step too far

(She scares our children, she makes them suffer)
Spit with me, you'll feel complete
(So parents please take them undercover)

(She pranks our children, bad sense of humour)
Scrape your throat and spit excrete
(We fiercely wish that she'd disappear)

(She swears at children, her anger's boiling)
Spit with me, it feels so sweet
(Our actions so far were disappointing)

(She spits on children, let's poke her eyes out)
Such a treat, spit and repeat
(Let's strike her head with that white guitar)

Bilal Hassani’s Parken Thrift Shop

Based on Belgium 1969
Louis Neefs — Jennifer Jennings

London streets lacked special fashion in their shops
Just endless rows of boring tops, then one May
A French King gave a new venture a dry run
Reselling clothing from '01, ready to buy

His first display: Erica Jennings
Billowing sleeves, pants with glittery thighs
A smash! Earnings unending

This shop gave Bilal Hassani a way
To pay for his musée

Feeling brave, he coupled Swedish pleather tat
With Vanna’s backing singer’s hat:
Crowds all raved
Nuša D’s S&M wasp décolleté
Paired with a Polish coat of hair
And Nino’s shades

Soon Dutch Michelle’s breathable leggings
Were gracing catwalks from Linz to Lusail
Jumpsuits at every wedding
Yet there’s a sad end to this couture tale:

Bilal went bust, recklessly spending
Procuring stock that nobody would buy
Skamp wigs, no longer trending
For Lindsay’s tracksuits, no takers today
No way

Haldor Lægreid?
Sedat Yüce?
No profit made :(

House-Arrested

Based on Austria 1968
Karel Gott — Tausend Fenster

Barbecue downstairs, it smells divine
They call my name, but I must decline
My neighbours don't know why
They must think I'm cross, or impolite

Hear my upstairs neighbours torture me
Their sweet young girl dribbling like Kareem
I can't request she'd quit
Cannot ring their bell, door's out of reach

For I'm house-arrested, electronic ankle tag
In a flat that's facing north in Plzeň 1
I just wanted velvet padding for my comfy chair
Now for two years haven't seen the sun

Quality's a must, though hard to find
No junk from Wish, only Czech design
But velvet.cz
Had no prime grade trim, nude girls instead

North Korean bots sneaked in from there
Then unbeknownst, I spread ransomware
Next, SWAT in evening time
Cuff me scared and knelt, suspect of crime

Since then, house-arrested, living hell without a charge
And my tag won't let me doze, it beeps all night
I'd find prison better, least there's human action there
It feels truly Kafka wrote my life

My Shoes Are Never Washed

Based on France 1969
Frida Boccara — Un jour, un enfant

My shoes are never washed
I just love the smell of trash
Scrubbing has for long been quashed
Done with all that big pharma

No sponge may do to me
What all people enjoy to see
Killing all germs on my feet
Argh, what pitiful karma

Oppressed by all
Who want me to be laundered
They’ll lock me in a cell
Forcing me to bathe

I want them all to go
That is what I would prefer
That one dawn I am alone
With my disgusting feet and fur

Confession time
This song is a distraction
Into your house I’ve gone
I’ve thrown out your sponge

I’m not a monster, nay
Now you are with me to stay
Soon your feet are soiled and pure
May we not ever wash our shoes

Malice in Mirrorland

Based on Denmark 1984
Hot Eyes — Det' lige det

Rain taps on the window.
Poor Alice stares in dread.
The tea's gone cold, the Queen is mad
’Cos Tweedledum has been found dead.
A knock then shatters the silence.
Who dares to enter now?
It’s Tweedledee, with bloody hands,
And guilt etched on his brow.

Oh! Tweedledee has just killed Tweedledum.
And Mirrorland is in a state of crisis.
Fraternal feud, a toy-time quarrel
Descended into brotherly war.
An evil deed that shook the world to its core.
A tragedy that sent the chessboard manic.
And if the old Red King should awake,
The world will disappear.

While Alice grips her teacup,
She sips with trembling grace.
She’s seen a knight fall off his horse,
But murder is a brand new case.
She asks, “Was it with the rattle?”
‘Dee nods and starts to sob:
“I only meant to twat him once. But then I couldn't stop.”

Oh! Tweedledee has just killed Tweedledum,
And Mirrorland is in a state of crisis!
‘Dee spilled the beans, a full confession,
He's facing the full weight of the law!
Humpty Dumpty threw himself off the wall,
He’s now just shell and yolk, it’s oh-so tragic.
And if the old Red King should awake,
The world will disappear.

She peers more closely, carefully spying,
It appears all is not as it seems.
The twin sat right before her is lying...
He swapped their collars. Dastardly scheme!

Poor Tweedledee!!!!

The perpetrator was in fact Tweedledum.
And Mirrorland is on the brink of cracking.
A stolen name, a grand deception.
The whole world’s heading for its downfall.
The White Queen shrieks, she can't take any more!
She's now a sheep and runs away. Sheer panic!
Because the old Red King starts to wake,
The dream now disappears!

🤡

Based on Belgium 2017
Blanche — City Lights

Cartwheel in, glumly honk my nose
Frightened kids hide behind their dads
The magician got sick with gout
Last resort, it’s the clown they call

See this handkerchief?
Pull, there’s another nine
Flower squirts when squeezed
My vodka inside
Kids’ parties could use wine

Ran away from a broken home
Led astray by a circus man
No-one asks how’s the birthday clown
They just want me to juggle balls

Never felt so free
I’d go where the circus went
He was 22
Our love was… intense
And usually in tents

Go away kid, I need a smoke
Getting nothing from my arm patch
No balloons kid, I’m all worn out
Fine, I’ll make you a fucking dog

Wish I could leave this job behind
But someone’s out there still to find
I could have had a different life

Painting faces, kids look forlorn
Got distracted, made them look sad
Every gig, I scan through the crowds
For the child always in my thoughts

Got knocked-up at 14 years old
Gave my girl to an acrobat
Broken heart beats within this clown
But there’s no-one to hear me talk
Of my troubles

I’m just Bubbles

Posh Is

Based on United Kingdom 1985
Vikki — Love Is

I left today the castle
That I own in Basel
It's falling down, a wreck in town
But a sign of prestige

I put my new blue dress on
And I attach a ribbon
Looks like Gaultier but I sewed it myself
Can’t wear clothes off-the-shelf

Because others' perception
Of my perfection, is my yearn to go on

Posh entails having, on the beach, a cabin
While struggling to pay, for your small flat, the rent
Posh means spending, in Rome, every weekend
Money I can’t dispend
Posh involves driving a new Aston Martin
Bought it ninth-hand, can't even fill the fuel tank
That’s what posh means

See this chair I brought here
I bought it cheap last year
Told it's antique, that sounds so chic
Producers bit the bait

Cause it's the way that you sell
Yourself as well as the narrative you tell

Posh entails dancing as if you were fencing
Left hand on the dress, I just can't make a mess
Posh’s wearing jewels, so massive and flashy
That are cheap and trashy
Posh is the make-up that makes you a pin-up
And enough hairspray to pollute the whole Poole Bay
That’s what posh is

Posh is the feeling that you're a top being
Don't care for the rest, can treat them like a pest
Posh's ostentation, buy people's affection
To feel complete and whole
Posh is pretending, it’s bluffing and feigning
A strategy to mask one's insecurities
That’s what (that’s what) that’s what posh is

I’m in Love with Pluto

Based on Lithuania 2024
Silvester Belt — Luktelk

Billions of miles
From our great sun
A little child
That has a story

Beyond Saturn
And son, Titan
Now twice distant
Enigma calling

Our Voyagers denied
Silent now, so very far away
Tombaugh, he lured us all
Saluting him as NASA soon deployed

New Horizons lifts off
To a world dismissed and alone?
Charon made us realise
Both of these exist intertwined

Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto
Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto

Neptune’s Triton
Nice vantage point
To see beyond
Untravelled areas

The joy for all enjoyed
Boggling the lengths that we will go

Flybys to both gave us
Images exquisitely clear
Charon stuck in rhythm
Painfully betwixt and between

Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto
Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto

Strung to each other
Neither slave to either
And we know for sure
Orbits four moons more

Kuiper Belt their playground
Target for tomorrow
Not just Europa
Plumes of H₂O!

Anguished interactions
Water melting deep underground
Solemn in their secret
Possible elixirs of life

Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto
Pluto, Pluto. I’m in love with Pluto, Pluto

❤️

Quest for Genetic Truth

Based on Denmark 1997
Kølig Kaj — Stemmen i mit liv

Thy heir speaking
Hail, lord!
What, ‘Hey lot’? Drop that
And start saying ‘you’!
That I would rue…
As ever, easy n clear… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
* Pedantic laughter *

Files notwithstanding
His having sired me sounds
Just implausible
(What’s she on?)

Our first daughter struck us deep
From the time she came to be
Love her dearly, but she’s
A bit too Lisa-esque if you ask me
So raising someone
This nitpicking was hard work
It felt we were haunted
By so many quirks

Was writing at two
And would blabber like a grown-up
First words: ‘I object’, and
Rarer terms would show up
Doctors said she hadn’t
Picked up plain wordings
She spoke “Legalise”
Which we found truly disturbing

Once put in that position
We tried to find a flip side
Used her monstrous knowledge
To become ourselves such brill minds!
‘Haddock’, ‘Ex gratious’
‘Enter alien’, ‘Juice’
‘Pro radar’ – You name it
Braggarts, as peeps frame it…

Were there failed duties
Right at yours truly’s birth? (Brr!)
Hospitals = haywire
Should have seen it with your eyes…
In careless instants
They kidnap infants – Worth (Worse!)
Filing an inquire
Some are maimed! Or even sliced! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
* Rushes to call the Health Department *

Then her teenage years arrived
And we were in for a massive treat…
Hate of difference meant she got
Abused by bullies on repeat
We figured
She could take fighting classes
Wicked folks had it coming:
She’d smash their asses!

Well, surprise! Turned it down
Said she was a self-declared
Peacifist: she cared
For a world that’s “just n fair”…
That is bullshit
Cos men are evil and savage
* Desperate dialling *
I mean, who wouldn’t want to
Have their bones ravaged?

And while we’d watch footy
She loved to study, she loved to read
She loved her puzzles
She loved her crosswords, she loved her tweets
And that’s when she kept starting
To pursue any cause
As stupid as wanting
To repel border laws

And now we’re aghost
She’ so ill-behaved
We find her thankless as fuck
With the efforts we gave…
We did have a hunch
As she wailed when she was born:
We feared our clan
Might get people’s scorn

Health’s chief responded (Well…)
Not what I wanted, though (Whoa!)
They deem all files right
Tryna turn your back on us?!
Since their procedures (And?)
And clinic features were (Er…)
All abided by
Wanna make less of a fuss?

One day
Came up through our doorway
Ditched her telephone
To her room we went
This time she wasn’t suing!
Probs had things brewing…
Hear out, forebear…
Now what crap’s she spewing?

Tell me what happened… Who did…
I followed thee (No…)
Took spit from off the pavement (Yikes!)
Sent a sample
DNA’ll be known soon
No need for that…

The test did not lie (Yeah!)
So stunned I got thy blood (Bud!)
Genes conduct like mad
You were worrying in vain
For out of millions (What?)
Of traits, one’s brilliance (Cut…)
Seems to dodge “bro dads”
You nerd, shut your classist brain!

Scrap Mendel’s model ¯\_(ツ)_/¯