He’s currently the bookies’ favourite to win Eurovision 2019 — despite the fact his song hasn’t dropped yet. And in just a few hours — as hope and hype continue to build — all will be made clear when Sergey Lazarev shares his song contest entry “Scream” and its official music video.
Ahead of today’s reveal AT 17:00 CET, the 2016 televote winner has confirmed the song title “Scream” and its lyrics with wiwibloggs.
The text plays on the intensity of tears — which can burn and leave us out of breath. Tears may run clear, but Sergey knows they carry with them the regrets, fear and pain we all inevitably experience. As he sings:
Maybe they can’t be heard or seen
But tears aren’t quiet things
They scream
They scream
At one point Sergey sounds as if he’s trying to maintain composure as he waits for someone to avert their eyes.
Though my throat is on fire
My eyes will be liars
And they’ll try to stay drier
Until you turn away
You can read the full lyrics at the end of this post.
Sergey’s music video for “Scream”
The director of his music video, Konstantin Cherepkov, promises something ambitious and with a defined narrative.
Speaking to wiwibloggs, he explained the complex story behind the music video.
“The story of the video clip was inspired by the fears we all carry from childhood, and which as we grow up become ‘screams’,” he says.
“The young boy symbolises our hero Sergey, while the island symbolises the end point of a journey we should all take in order to overcome our fears. The strong melody, the powerful lyrics and the amazing performance of Sergey inspired me to create this unique dark video clip with a strong message to everyone.”
Scream lyrics — Sergey Lazarev
No I can’t stay here longer
You cannot make me cry
So, I will leave you to wonder
What will become of our lives
I’ll swallow hard
Fall apart
Break and bleed but
You won’t see
Tears won’t fall
While pride stands tall
Maybe they can’t be heard or seen
But tears aren’t quiet things
They scream
They scream
Though my throat is on fire
My eyes will be liars
And they’ll try to stay drier
Until you turn away
I’ll swallow hard
Fall apart
Break and bleed but
You won’t see
Tears will fall
I hear them all
They scream
They scream
Not so silent and innocent
Acid rain from your finger prints
Echoes rivers of loneliness
Hitting the walls of my heart
What do you think about the text of Sergey’s song “Scream”? Are you loving the idea that tears can scream? Let us know in the comments box down below.
My WINNER. See you in Moscow
bye
I didn’t like it much after the first listening….but from the second on, it has some kind of “dark epic” vibe I can’t shake off.
I personally like it much!
Exclusive? I have a deafness or what
Not loving scream lol bit disappointed but you can see this would be so easy to stage and is going to have an impact.
Okay. The Netherlands is winning. There is no way the juries will vote for Sergay’s dramatic dated ballad. Period.
I just realized my posts get quoted in the youtube section, so I better be careful what I write and need to censor myself from here on out O_O
If Sergey wants to undo homophobia in Russia with this song, I’m sold on it. He’d be my Sir Gay forever
<3<3<3<3
Lol yay to sergey!
Sorry but they did a big fuff and then it’s just this generic pop ballad?
And quite boring too tbh.
They want to appeal juries but there’s much better pop ballads in the competition. And I don’t think they’ll convince televote with this , not even with a massive stage production.
generic pop ballad??? oh no really???
which songs according to your expert opinion are better???? just out of curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovhJHU8wnxU
Might be a very good song
I do not understand why people are wishing that the song release is bad. Don’t we want a country to send the best and do well in an effort to maximise the song quality.
Came here only to read comments on the “swallow hard” part.
OMG! This is even gayer than France 2019. 😀
Why do you think this is gayer?
The more Sergey talks about his song, the more NL goes up in the odds 😛
That’s quite risqué, Mrs Vaughn, isn’t it? 😉
Ugh, I hadn’t gone through the other comments before posting mine, so sorry for jumping the bandwagon.
Which innuendos you are talking about? I’ll swallow hard maybe?
The ambiguity tho. ^^
no offense but in my opinion this is regular….just regular
Not like previous one wasn’t. It did pretty well though
Yes I would assume so, especially considering she also wrote “Waterline”. 😛
Tears aren’t quiet things, they scream, sounds a bit like a Doctor Who episode teaser if you ask me. But again, I’ll wait to see how it fits in the song.
Yeah, that does sound like something out of Doctor Who. I can imagine the Doctor saying something like that. I sometimes think there are eurovision songs that fit well with the show.
I do have an episode idea of Doctor and Companion travelling to Restoration England and befriending Nell Wynn, and then help her to seduce King Charles II by the companion teaching Nell the choreo of Fuego.
Ugh, that is a solid piece of poetry, swallowing, bleeding, throat on fire, acid rain from finger prints?
Sounds like an excessive night in a Moscow underground gay dungeon
That is choreography I would like to see. 😀
Imagine Maruv’s choreography with guys
I’m gay and I feel disturbed
lame
“swallow hard”
Just for the unintentional « swallow hard » part, Sergey deserves some credit 😀 rest of the lyrics basically seem like talking about someone’s first gay experience bottoming 😀 « throat on fire », « breaking and bleeding ». Gurl, I feel you.
Against all odds I think I’ll enjoy that song xD
Lmao! This is histerical: P
“While pride stands tall”? Interesting…
Gay manifest from Russia? Very interesting!
And it’s about the time.
lyrics are worse than his 2016 one lmfao
it cannot be tbh
Overall lyrics are nothing special, but “acid rain from your finger prints” is killing me.
The lyrics are bit generic, but is Russia so they’ll put a lot of effort and money in their performance. What I actually don’t understand, sorry but this is going to be off topic, is the behaviour most of the people has in this community, and talking about Eurovision in general. What is seems is that there’s nations that you can’t don’t like it, if you do you are an hater; no ones are out of the game by critics, and we have to be free to explain our ideas, even if we don’t like Sweden, or Cyprus, or Spain,… Read more »
The lyrics are a bit basic and expected but I’m waiting for the song
So where is the song Sergey? Dear 🙂
In other news , Duncan has announced he has a boyfriend 😛
90% of this year’s male singers are queer ahah
sergey too ? 😀
Obviously 🙂
Sergey has a wife and a kid
Who is his wife? He has only a kid from a surrogate mother.
Exactly.
Sergey has a kid but no wife. He is a single dad and his mom is helping him to raise his son.
17.00 CET
Yeah i read it on twitter,its been on local tv, he also said he cant tell who is it yet, people now speculating that Duncan’ boyfriend is someone famous, lol
Let me guees , Mahmood? 😛
He is not
we don’t care for duncan
he is doing that to gain more attention
GTFO name copycat
He just answered the question, that is all.
And Duncan deserves all the attention he is getting
I thought it was pretty clear that Duncan was gay lmao. Also is Serhat gay because I think so but I also don’t think so.
Duncan is bisexual, not gay ?
It’s already too overhyped
Oh man, release the song already! this is the most annoying promo in the history of Eurovision.
I’ll swallow hard?! WTF?!
Thought the same xD
That’s why it’s called Cream, I mean Scream… (I’m naughty I know) 😉 but still, all the best of luck to him.
I guess this line was inspired by the fact that daddy Serhat is competing
I’m here for the comments section. XD
If he wants to swallow hard, just let him do so 🙂
I’m screaming!
We will win with no doubts! Go King Sergey ! No one can even compare with you this year 😀
Moscow 2020 is waiting!
No, please, let’s have a peaceful eurovision next year, ok? no political drama or homophobic bulls**t, please.
Agree, Amsterdam or Roma would be so nice to host next year, fantastic cities! 😀
Better be Reykjavik
My only hope is that it’s not to similar to Netherlands ballad. I don’t want them to cancel each other out, because both countries usually bring quality entries and deserve a win<3
Russia serves quality again. I hope they will get their revenge for 2016
Revenge…? For what? Not winning? We don’t do revenge in eurovision, my friend
Russia will not win — next drama and conflicts – thank you …I am sick already from these things
They didn’t make any drama. Drama was made by Ukraine and that isn’t a reason why he shouldn’t win
Ukraine won fair and square, that’s not making drama. That’s being a winner, baby.
It didn’t deserve to win 2016. Australia was much better
The song that deserves to win is the song with the biggest combination of Jury and Televote….that song was “1944” by Jamala. Russia’s pyrotechnics did not convince the jurors of the merit of the song. That is why Russia came third. They will need to do better in 2019 to win.
He had a good enough performance and staging unlike the women that was screaming about how Russia attacked them. Ukraine isn’t the only country in the world that was attacked huh
And i actually even liked her song (Not in a political way) but she totally disappointed me with all that hate speech after she said she want peace. That is not how eurovision winner should behave
It will be funny if he ends up 3rd again!
or 3rd from last places
They will be lucky if it ends up 3rd
Wow. You knew! 🙂
In fact that’s good result. And I had deja vu. Again good televoting and again low jury voting
Maybe Europe needs to understand their tears in order to find a way in this transitional time…
OMG
Too many songs with dark messages this year. I’ll bet on Cyprus now…
Czech Republic, Iceland Switzerland calling too
Cypriot entry is the only one which can stand really well outside the contest as well. Pop upbeat fun enjoyable. Let the ballads stragle to cancel each other while tamta will offer happyness and fun to the contest. That’s the most important about the contest cause the last years the winners are worthless…
He already has the televoting, all he needs now is the jury vote. I think it will be a “Beautiful Mess” kind of ballad.
Oh really, heard the song?
How you know he will win the televote?
I din’t say he will win the public vote. I think he will score very high, potentially enough to win with the combo (jury+televoting). It’s not that hard to see that he’s coming with something for the juries.
“The televoting in the bag” is probably what he thinks (I hope he’s wrong tho ^^)
He has a televote already? How do you know ?
Lol
It’s Russia
Another “poem” written by a teenager in his/her emo phase… LOL
Lol. Poem. That’s the right word 😀
OK THAT’S AMAZING
If this is any good and Sweden selects John Lundvik, Eurovision 2019 quite possibly might have a male winner with the Netherlands, Italy and Azerbeidzjan in the mix.. good luck to all!
You forgot about the winners h a t a r i .
As long as I love Hatari, I know that they won’t stand a chance in terms of winning
Then can you please kindly stop doing so and let us have Reykjavik 2020?
I can’t remember the last time a group won, maybe Katrina and the Waves or the Olson Brothers??
Lordi
Lordi?
Sharon Vaughn’s lyrics, yes? She also wrote “Waterline” for Jedward. 😀
Dark, yet suggestive. Sergey will no doubt make some of us swallow hard.