[Måns]: Well, it's a multinational competition With a collaborative mission So much like the Olympics in a way [Petra]: Sure, it's rather less athletic [Måns]: Though just as energetic [Petra]: More colorful, and what's the word? [Måns (spoken)]: Theatrical?
[Petra]: We make music and friends with every nation [Both]: And bankrupt the hosting TV station [Måns]: To help to shore up a post-war Europe, in 1956, it all began [Petra]: The set, I'm rather certain, was nothing but a curtain There were only seven countries and one camera-man [Måns]: But then it started growing now Australia's ours! [Petra]: We're a big black hole sucking in all the stars! [Both]: We'll take over the world and then conquer Mars! That's Eurovision!
[Petra]: It's an annual celebration of our culture It's the highlight of our year [Måns]: And a victory can catapult you Just look at my career! [Petra]: Yes, so we see You get to share the stage with me! We're all excited, the fans united, from Reykjavík, Riga and Rome [Måns]: At Eurovision, there's no division cause wherever you come from Here is home!
[?]: For loving Eurovision, I get bullied at school But when we come together, I don't feel a fool! For one week a year, we're pretty cool! That's Eurovision!
[Petra]: Getting votes from your neighbours is a sure way to get your song disgraced [Måns]: But when Sweden gets 12 points from Norway, it's clearly just good taste [Petra]: That gimmicky factor, the wacky, the weird Céline [?], Conchita's beard Pirates and penguins and puppets on strings These are a few of my favourite things!
The singers come together like songbirds of a feather For victory they hope and pray and beg [Måns]: Wait there in the green room, but [?], wishing all of our competitors break a leg [Petra]: The impact of the show I cannot overstate [Måns]: No matter where you go, it's a source of debate [All]: But it's something you either love or hate That's Eurovision!
[Petra]: And the interval act is your one big chance To fail to live up to Riverdance!
Where else can you hear [?] and Luxembourgish sung We've had two songs with sign language and three in made-up tongue And [?], Creole, Norwegian, Võro, Viennese Neopolitan, Catalan, [?], Montenegrin and Maltese
[Måns]: [?], Albanian, Slovak-Ukrainian, Romani, Russian, Romanian Crimean, Slovenian, Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic and Lithuanian [Petra]: Portugeuse, Macedonian, [?], Estonian, [?], Croatian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Italian, Bosnian, Latvian, Corsican, Serbian, German, Hungarian [Both]: Polish and English and Irish and Finnish and Swedish and Spanish and Dutch [?] and Turkish and Danish and French [Petra]: Tahitian though not very much [Måns]: And though I don't know Czech, Swahili, Azeri or Greek [All]: Music is a language that we all know how to speak
That's Eurovision! It's your decision [?] [Måns]: Douze points or zero, you'll be a hero of our time [All]: And the Eurovision family, we do it with glitz and glamour-ly There's rich and kitsch and ham-ily [?] This is my-rovision and his-rovision and her-rovision and you-rovision! [?] again At the Eurovision Song Contest!