Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Winners

Eurovision 2012 winner - Loreen - Sweden - Euphoria

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Singing Babushkas Represent Russia at Eurovision 2012

Folk group of six elderly women known as Buranovskiye Babushki (the Buranovo Grannies) will represent Russia at Eurovision this year.  According to the BBC, “The lyrics to the song, which feature a mixture of English and Udmurt – a language related to Finnish – were written by the grandmothers.”

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Azerbaijan wins 2011 Eurovision song contest

Ell (Eldar Gasimov) and Nikki (Nigar Jamaland) from Azerbaijan received the highest number of points from juries and televoters from the 43 countries participating in this year's edition of Europe's most popular music TV-show.*




Ell/Nikki - Running Scared (Winners of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest)

Performer: Ell/Nikki

Song title: Running Scared
Song writer(s): Stefan Örn, Sandra Bjurman
Song composer(s): Stefan Örn, Sandra Bjurman, Iain Farquharson

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Vanilla Twilight Music Video

Music video by Owl City performing Vanilla Twilight. 
(C) 2010 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Switchfoot - Meant to Live

"Meant to Live" is a single by alternative rock band Switchfoot. It peaked at #5 on the US Modern Rock chart, #6 on U.S. Top 40 radio, and #18 on the U.S. Hot 100. It is the first track on the group's 2003 major-label debut album The Beautiful Letdown, and was also featured in a UK version of a Spider-Man 2 "inspired by" album. In April 2005, the song was certified gold in the United States. The single is generally regarded as the song that helped the band achieve mainstream success.



Switchfoot -"Meant to Live" (Spider Man 2 OST)
Songwriters: Foreman, Foreman, Jonathan; Timothy David
Copyright owner: Sony/BMG


Lyrics:
Fumbling his confidence 
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bent for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly

[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken

[Chorus]

We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeah

We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live 

Background

Lyrically this song was inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men." About the song, singer/writer Jon Foreman has said, "Maybe the kid in the song is me, hoping that I'm meant for more than arguments and failed attempts to fly. Something deep inside of me yearns for the beautiful, the true. I want more than what I've been sold; I want to live life." According to Foreman, this song was also inspired by U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."

It also refers to John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men, in the lyric "Dreaming about Providence and whether mice or men have second tries."

Music videos

There were three music videos made for this song. The first video features live performance footage, the second is a concept video depicting the band playing inside a house while the walls and insides are slowly being torn down, and a third video is mixed into clips from Spider-Man 2, and was released exclusively in the UK.

The first two videos featured audio mixed a key higher than the album version.

Chart positions

Chart (2003)	Peak position
AU ARIA	5
US Billboard Hot 100	18
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	5
US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	6
US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	36
US Billboard Pop 100	5

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Peter Nalitch & Friends - Lost And Forgotten w / lyrics

Потерянный и забытый (перевод - Светлана Ней...)

Как же поверить,
Господи Боже?
Можешь ли ты быть так добр?
Я так хочу быть с ней
И я так хочу вернуть все сейчас,
Все поцелуи и сладкие объятия

Вот я здесь,
одинокий, забытый
В этом жестоком мире
полюбив в первый раз
поэтому я пою,
Поэтому я сейчас пою
Господи Боже,
И я надеюсь быть услышанным
О, да

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Oleg Pogudin - V zemljanke

Oleg Pogudin - V zemljanke (Russian: Олег Погудин - В землянке)

English translation

Fire cannot escape from the stove,
Warming up, melting tears from the wood.
And accordion sings in the hut
About your smile and your beautiful eyes.

Bushes whisper only your name
When I roam in fields under snow.
I just wish you could hear my voice,
How it's yearning and longing alive.

You are so far away, far away,
So much snow between you and me.
It's not easy to reach back to you,
It is only one second to die.

Sing accordion to spite snowstorm!
Call the happiness lost on the way...
In the cold hut I feel like I'm warm,
Warm of love ever-burning in me.

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This Beautiful Republic

Music video by This Beautiful Republic performing Surrender Saved My Life.

This Beautiful Republic - Surrender Saved My Life

Lyrics

I have had enough,
buying ashes with my love
I don't need this
I'm pursuing counterfeit
I'm worth so much more
than this
I don't need it
I don't need it

My flag is turning white
I need Your hope tonight
For the first time
Surrender saved my life

When will all this end?
Must I open up again?
I don't need this
Healing hurts a little more, but I'll be stronger than before
Yeah, I need this,
I know I need this

Keep my eyes focused, You are the long run
There's no time for giving up
We'll make it
We'll make it

This Beautiful Republic - Cloud Cover

Lyrics

I cannot see
This cloud will not break
It's created suffering
It's what I did

Take me up
It's my desire
Speak to me
Sun bleeds through cloud cover

If darkness comes to me
What should I do?
Is there a chance for me
If I have Your love?

Just speak to me
I need Your desire
I don't want just to feel it
To know that You know who I am

You're all I see

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http://itunes.apple.com/artist/this-beautiful-republic/id209412399

   

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