“Sweet People” Lyrics — Alyosha (Eurovision 2010, Ukraine)
Oh, sweet people
What have we done?
Tell me what is happening?
For all that we’ve built
Tumbles and is gone
Oh, sweet people
Have you no love for mankind?
Must you go on killing
Just to pass the time.
The message is so true
The end is really near
All these feelings take me down
It steals the things so dear
Yes, the message is so real.
Don’t turn all the earth to stone
Because, because, because
This is your home
Oh, sweet people
what about our children?
In theaters and video games
They watch what we send to ruin
Oh, sweet people
What senseless game
Have we all been playing?
No one but you to blame?
The message is so true
The end is really near
All these feelings take me down
It steals the things so dear
Yes, the message is so real.
Don’t turn all the earth to stone
Because, because, because
This is your home
This is our home.
Beneath all songs with the message to Europe, to be together and to stop all warfare and so on, I think the song of Alyosha “Sweet people” is the most important, most insistent. The text is clear and the singer has done a real good performance. She gave all emotions to her voice and showed the fearful emotions of all people, that have seen the bad things, humans do to humans. What a pity, the jury and the voters didn’t get this message, didn’t get its importance and all, only because the melody is not as pleasing as other nice… Read more »