La forza del destino (ESC Love Story)

Based on Estonia 2018

Pronunciation note: Elina’s pronunciation of “Amaury”:  A-maury   /aˈmauri/

Same year I saw him on stage
I was studying French*
Even before graduating
I’ve fallen in love.

He’d be my guider to the opera
He’s always on my mind.

I feel the days are so long,
Knowing he’s so far
Lord, I beg, be lenient…. make Amaury mine…

His “Sognu” inspires me
To always fight for love
So, I will have Amaury one day!

My dream to sing under spotlights
“Eurovision star”
For him I tried to make it real,
One step at a time.

(makes a promise, looking at his photo)
“My sweet Amaury, you’re my guiding star
We’ll meet for real soon, I won’t let you down.”

I fancy him all night long,
He makes me get hot…
Pour French wine and cheer now, he is here tonight!!

We’re so aroused in the night
And now finally I
surrender to Amaury… Oooh, yeeessss
Aaaaaaaah,
Aaaaaaa-aaaaahhhh!!!

*Elina Nechayeva graduated from Tallinn French School in 2011 (Source: Wikipedia)

Deepfake

Based on Belarus 2014

Say, is that Theresa May?
Or Tina Fey?
The world was nice and easy
When we could tell for sure

We’ve Photoshopped and
We’ve trimmed and cropped but
Now something much more sinister is here
It’s called “deepfake”

If you’ve never come across this word before
I’ll explain a little briefly what it’s for
It’s the superimposition of a head
Make it seem that they’re another instead

And perhaps I’ve oversimplified it here
You can find out more on Wikipedia
Recently though it’s become a real headache
Lots of famous people all get deepfaked

Oh, don’t care, yeah? Next time it could be you
Or you, or you

Say you don’t like Donald Trump
Or Kim Jong-Un
Just use your deepfake skills and you
Can make them both look gay

With just a quick click
They’re pornographic
And frankly there are things we should never ever see

I don’t want to say this will affect us all
But technology can spin out of control
Maybe we should just slow down, apply the brake
It’s an issue for a long mass debate

We’re already sceptical of what we read
We might even stop believing what we see
Did a controversy actually take place?
Is it real or is it just a deepfake?

Oh, yeah
What on earth can we do? Although, although...

Being such a cheeky boy
Here are deepfakes I’d enjoy, oh oh:

Douwe Bob and Stefan Raab without their clothes
Koza Mostra wearing sexy lederhosen, and

Se-e-e-rhat, yeah

With a boner…

Anyway, I lost the point so let me state
I can sympathise with you, I can relate
If you have a secret ideal deepfake

But we’ve got to stop with this depravity
It’s an issue of the deepest gravity
And I don’t approve of such activities
Even though I think I’d make sweet deepfakes

Deepfakes!

If you want, I’ve got a list of many more
I come up with them each day when I wake up, yeah

If you want, I can request one with your face
‘Cause I know a man in Minsk who deepfakes

Mwah!

Aoooooooo (Werewolves of Zagreb)

Based on Croatia 1998

Up for adoption, all alone
Our mamas left us with no home
Because a doctor diagnosed
An illness beastly, odd, and gross

Though people let us stay, for thirty days,
They change their minds, discard us, when the full moon comes

Werewolves without a lair
Weakly werewhelps wearing well-worn wares
When will we find a family we don’t scare?

No love for furry lads
Naked, never noticed, never fed
Not so much as a bit of bloody bread

Why are we always disavowed?
Is it because we’re unibrowed?
Our lives are largely lacking hope
Living like lowly lycanthropes

Just ‘cause we pee on trees, does not mean we
Will maul your son, or shit on top of your divan

Please put your guns away
Piercing pups with pitchforks: not okay
Please, we pray, let us love you, we’ll behave-a-a-ve

For an eternity
Fleas and failure foiled our family
Four furries, fearful, furious, and free-e-e-e

Four furries, fearful, furious, and free-e-e-e

Can cuddly kids by day
Be blamed for being bitten by a stray?

Tiny tots, crossed with lupine DNA
Hairy, but … we need loving anyway...

Hat Will Prevail

Based on Iceland 2019

@*&#!

Stranger, forever lost
Eyeballs extremely crossed
Fifteen pounds this book cost
Where the fuck is Wally?!

Boiling, my temper
Only finding Wenda
Simple colour blocking:
Always better

~ Lost in the crowd ~
~ I go unfound ~
~ Shy I am not ~
~ I’m just really hard to spot ~

Legions of copycats
Brainwashed or body-snatched
Outfits too closely matched
Beach in summer weather
Still loyal to the sweater

Hat of the bobble
Fashion ensemble
Hand lens failure
Fruitless microscopy
Night becoming day

~ Come join my fun ~
~ Oh… but you can’t ~
~ I’ll make you crack ~
~ Turn for answers at the back ~
~ But there are none ~

~ Throw in the towel ~
~ You wanna hint? ~
~ I’ve got on a lovely hat ~

~ I’m meeting your glance ~
~ Still you look past ~
Cult of the knitter
Clutters picture
~ Still you look past ~
Wizard discovered
Veins about to rupture

~ Isn’t this fun? ~
Rising mental scarring
Dog in margin

I'll ask some children

Your Voice Can Take Me There

Based on Luxembourg 1984

You know that life's a mystery
And everyone must stand alone
But then I hear you call my name
And instantly it feels like home

I hear your voice, an angel sighs
I have no choice, feels like I fly
I close my eyes and think I fall
Out of the sky, to God I call

Call my name, it feels like a prayer
I'm down on my knees, take you there
The midnight hour, I feel your power - oh!
Like a prayer, I will take you there

Just like a child, whisper to me
You're in control, it's like a dream
There is no end no beginning
You're here with me and a choir sings

Sound of your voice can take me there
I have no choice I hear your voice
A muse to me, a mystery
Not what you seem, it's like a dream

Call my name, it feels like a prayer
I'm down on my knees, take you there
The midnight hour, I feel your power - oh!
Like a prayer, I will take you there

I've got no choice, I hear your voice
A muse to me, a mystery

Call my name, it feels like a prayer
I'm down on my knees, take you there
The midnight hour, I feel your power - oh!
Like a prayer, I will take you there

Call my name, it feels like a prayer
I'm down on my knees, take you there
The midnight hour, I feel your power - oh!
Like a prayer, I will take you there

Doggie Style

Based on Sweden 1982

You should do it once a week
Whenever you feel dirty

We all know it is such fun
To run about the streets buck naked

Look at where that muck collects
When you crawl through the bushes

That is where our place can help you out
Let us sing our salon’s motto now

Go Doggie Style!
Here to wash you nose to butt

Yes Doggie Style!
Big or small, pure-bred or mutt

Check us out on PoochAdviser
Woof! Woof! Woof! They all say

We’ll clean you up
Do it now in Doggie Style!

It’s our job to pamper you
Relieving all your tension

Did you hear about that zoo?
It really does deserve a mention

One small dog was all they had
Indeed it was a shih tzu!

Corny, true. At least that made you smirk
Who says fun is banned when you’re at work?!

In Doggie Style, Bettan rubs your cares away

While Kikki she gives you good floof, head to tail

Read these words from our subscribers:
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That’s what they say!
Take your time with Doggie Style

Your buddies will be eager to
Lick and sniff your arses

That’s just a perk

Do it now…in Doggie Style

Don't be shy

Say that #I'veDoneItDoggieStyle

ʎɐp s,punlpǝH ɐuᴉ˥ ɹooԀ

Based on Israel 1974

Her day began with her Nassim snoring beside her
Though the right man, she couldn't help but feel peculiar
As she was wearing his boxers, and he her nightdress
Climbed out of bed, the perfect time to watch the sunset

Brushed her feet and combed the jam
Read the toast, and blended up
a fruit smoothie with chop suey
Went to walk the cat

Poor Lina Hedlund's day, was in a backwards way
She started from the end
And slowly worked her way to the beginning

Met sister Hanna just outside of the beauticians
After 2 hours they left, their nails in worse condition
With lashes plucked, tummies untucked, and waxed off eyebrows
Once they were done her sister told her 'Hallå, Hallå'

Packed her kids off out to school
At four in the afternoon
In her car, did yoga
Injured her ulna

Poor Lina Hedlund's day, was in a backwards way
Nothing would go to plan
And though she tried real hard, she couldn't change it

Oooo Oooo

With Alcazar she had an afternoon performance
But the keychanges were all modulated downwards
Andreas wrote his number in her underwear seam
If Aftonbladet found out that would make the headlines

She clapped all wrong in Alcastar
Climbed into the glitterball
Sinner and saint, both were her
Then came the Eurovision

Poor Lina Hedlund's day, was in a backwards way
Meeting Linnea Deb, she called her Joy instead

Oh yes poor Lina Hedlund's day, ended in disarray
When filling out her list, she had the order flipped

Oh yes poor Lina Hedlund's fave, was meant to be Arcade
But instead Netherlands ended up listed last

Oh yes poor Lina's day, was luckily outweighed
By poor Jon Ola Sand's Saturday

Oof!

Christer Björkman’s One Regret After Eurovision 2018

Based on Netherlands 1987

I sit down and kneel
As I fold my hands with trembling fear
It was thrilling, and I thought I was so smart
No, there is no doubt, there was no real remorse I felt
I have always known exactly how my cards were dealt
As you talk, you sound just like a voice-over

Oh dear Lord I have sinned
Gave them number two
Their lower score
I see it now
#Almaia will hunt me anyhow
Maybe I’ll get skinned
By all the eurofans
Or worse than skinning they’ll chase me and
They’ll all scream ‘Let’s get his hairs trimmed’
(Let’s get his hairs trimmed!)

How I really feel
About it all and their ‘Canción’…
Let’s just say that it is not state of the art
And you know, deep within I pity their bad luck
Mainly hers, because we all know he is gay as fuck
But she’s stuck with him, she got the leftover

Oh dear Jon I have sinned
Now I know it’s true
I used to soar
But now I vow
To retain Spain’s spot as a cash cow
When the lights are dimmed
With the draw in my hands
I’ll put Spain in number thirteen or
Even in bloody twenty-six

#Almaia, can we please underscore
My hairs were just recently trimmed
(They came twenty-third!)
Åh nej, it’s the herd!
(Now we’ll skin you, turd!)
Jon, put in a word!

Broken Dryer

Based on Denmark 1983

Broken dryer! What am I supposed to do?
Need some knickers and they’re all soaked through.

I knew at once smalls so unclean
would sorely test the washing machine.
Instead they killed the dryer dead.
That option’s gone. So what does that leave?

My hair dryer? That would take all afternoon.
Radiators aren’t much use in June.

A short skirt’s good, in its way;
not when your **** comes out to play.
At work I bet, though men would tip,
I’d get the shove for giving them lip!

Fan-forced oven! That should do the trick. Let’s see.
Not too hot, mind. 200 degrees.

Soon I’ll have dry lingerie.
But what’s that smell, like an ashtray?
Not – ? Oy vey!

Pants on fire! Undies overcooked, I see.
You might say they’re dryer than I need.

That backfired :( Crispy panties, table three!
Go commando? No choice left for me.
Guess it’s knicker-free!

Chernobyl in the Rain

Based on Austria 1991

Mutant deer mating, Pripyat is waiting
To get some cool shots with me
Empty concrete blocks, the ferris wheel rocks
This place truly is the A-bomb!

Drops on my forehead, I whip out the drone
The air tastes metallic, I'll get it done

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A derelict school, this is simply way too cool
A school bus that once carried kids
The fog is so thick, where's the selfie-stick?
Something for my Instagram

Dropping my NBC suit to the ground
Hashtag nuclearbooty, it's Like-meltdown!

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