We knew Gor Sujyan’s “Lonely Planet” wasn’t going to be anything like Sirusho’s “Qele Qele” or Eva Rivas’s “Apricot Stone”. After all, he’s a rocker. But we were totally shocked when we realized he’d be singing a blandish rock ballad.

We can’t understand everything he’s saying, but on first listen the song seems to be about holding hands and protecting the Earth. “Lonely Planet who can save you?” he croons. “Who can stop it?” Stop what? Regardless, that storyline is, like, so overplayed at the moment. At least Alyoshia (Ukraine 2010) took on nuclear holocaust with pizzaz! The opening line about “whose the one who starts a war” initially made me think this was going to devolve into some kind of Armenia-Azerbaijan nonsense, but thankfully this isn’t explicitly political!

Anyway, what do you think of the song?

Who’s the one that starts a war?
Who’s dictating what is less and more?
Who can change the night and day?
Who’s the one with clever face?
That can tell us what is in the space?
Playing games that none can play.

Maybe someday we’ll break the wall.
Maybe the light will touch us all.

Chorus :

Lonely planet!
Who has done it?
Who can save you?
Who can stop it?

Who’s the one that has the right?
Treat us wrong and tell us what is right?
Bringing crowd against the squad…
Who has honesty to show?
Who can tell us “I don’t know” ?
Who’s the man and who’s the god?

Maybe someday we’ll break the wall.
Maybe the light will touch us all.

Chorus :

Lonely planet!
Who has done it?
Who can save you?
Who can stop it?
Lonely planet!
We have done it!
We can save you?

We can stop it.
We can stop it…
We can stop it….
We can stop it…
For the world.

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MoOn-FLoWeR
10 years ago

ZARINA !!! SENIN AZERBAYCANLI OLDUGUN UCUN BU GUN MEN UTANIRAM!!!!
SENIN VICDANIN HANI QURURUN HANI ???
O KI QALDI FIKIRLERIME ….QARIWMAGA HAQQIN YOXDU!!! NIKKI DEMIW MUMLA!!!

nikki
10 years ago

Zarina birdeki o ozun kimi xeste serhlerivi azerbaycanca yaz cunki bizimde azerbaycanli olduqumuzu bilirsen ozuvu tulkuluye qoyub reklam eleme oz dilimizde yazki sadece ne qeder axmaq olduquvu ozumuz anlayaq. narahat olma hansisa eremeni meymunu sene bravo demeyecey ikiuzlu. seninle nezaketle danismaqi cox isterdim ama sen buna layiq deyilsen men teessuf edirem

nikki
10 years ago

Zarina ay qiz men bezdim eeee senin elinden hara gedirem menden el cekmirsen sen her kese aqil verene kimi ozun aqilli olda sen kimsen ki kimese nese deyirsen he senin Azerbaycanlilarla problemin var her yerde eksine ozumuzu muhakime edIrsen birdefe gormedimki ozumuzu mudafie edecey birce kelme yazasan sen normal adam deyilsen sen indi bize bele yazmaqla ne demeye calsirsan onu anlamiram sen xestesen? sen ozuvu kim sayirsanki ona buna nese oyredirsen birv sozle QIRILDA!

nikki
10 years ago

Zarina stop write about me ok! mumla! sen get ozun fikirles gor adamsan yoxsa yox birdeki sen niye butun sehifelerde mene muracietle yazirsan senin aqlindan problemin var

Mamed
Mamed
10 years ago

This song and artist very bad so like his country

Zarina
Zarina
10 years ago

@NIKKI and @MOON-FLOWER. I am Azerbaijani and support Farid with all my heart, but if I were admin of this website I would remove all your comments, because most of the are silly and you are discrediting both Farid and our people and country. Think before you write something

MOON-FLOWER
11 years ago

MONKEY,DONKEY….)))))))))))))))))))

nikki
11 years ago

birde bu maymax ne deyir guya hans?sa palaneti xilas edecey bes goresen bu dunyan? bu vehsilerden kim xilas edecey? maymax oqru zibilceler

nikki
11 years ago

he looks like armenia that is monkey, I am surprised why, they don’t steal
azerbaijan music or instrument balaban. but it is very good, it seems they will be person.
LAND OF F?RE AZERBA?JAN TURKS

AZERBA?JAN
11 years ago

KHOJALY genocide!!!
Lands of Azerbaijan!!!
KHOJALY genocide!!!

MOON-FLOWER
11 years ago

KHOJALY genocide!!!
Lands of Azerbaijan!!!
KHOJALY genocide!!!

ANNA
11 years ago

I AGREE WITH YOU .THIS SONG VERY BAD…

MOON-FLOWER
11 years ago

THIS MUSIC VERY BAD VEAKK!!!!

MOON-FLOWER
11 years ago

I HATE YOU! <3 The beautiful music of Azerba?jan hold me…<3

nikki
11 years ago

monkeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

nikki.@mail.ru
11 years ago

monkeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

gaga
gaga
11 years ago

This is just an Amazing song!!! My kind of music, yeahhh,thanks Armenia!!! And the vocal is fantastic

Zolan
Zolan
11 years ago

Try as I might, I see no hope for this.
Gor Sujyan is clearly a fantastic vocalist, but this song is almost embarrassing.

Scott Ramsay
Scott Ramsay
11 years ago

It’s been revealed Tony Iommi from black sabbath originally wrote the music in demo form

Anthony
Anthony
11 years ago

After watching Armenia’s national final yesterday, well… That’s 1 and a half hours I’ll never see again!

Jaz
Jaz
11 years ago

I’m with Melissa on the ‘Boom Boom’ thing. That was definitely worse. It’s just a shame Armenia couldn’t return with a bang. And by bang, I mean with Sirusho and another amazing ethno-pop entry with tassels on.

Unrespected Armenian
Unrespected Armenian
11 years ago

You guys are kidding yourselves if you think Eurovision isn’t heavily politicized, with or without explicitly political lyrics. Melissa, I don’t think Armenia participates in the Eurovision Song Contest to gain the respect of fans of mediocre-to-awful pop music but I could be wrong. The song is bad, but how often are there good songs at Eurovision? I suppose Armenia could have hired Karen Kavaleryan or Sergio Galoyan (two Russia-based Armenians who have had some success with the type of pop that typical Eurovisionistas enjoy–Russia’s “Never Let You Go,” Ukraine’s “Shady Lady” and “Gravity”) to compose the song, but they… Read more »

cihan
11 years ago

It seems that he doesn’t have a chance to win ESC!

E. Schmidt
11 years ago

His own song Toy Planet is much better. He managed to demonstrate his ability, the chorus has a nice melody, with a little bit optimizing it should have been a touching power ballad. Instead, he now will sing a piece of an Englishman. The tweets during his performance of Lonely Planet looked like PR. Always these manipulations…

Stephen Colville
Stephen Colville
11 years ago

They had 2 good rock songs they could have selected, and went for this. Shame.

Melissa J
11 years ago

I do kind of like it ,but if Armenia wants to start political shit again, then I will have even less respect for them than I already do.

Really, it can’t get any worse than “Boom Boom” from 2011

Kiki
Kiki
11 years ago

Armenia is usually one of my favorite countries at Eurovision….but this is just so boring. It’s a shame as he does have a good voice.

Black Diamond
Black Diamond
11 years ago

great song and gorgeous voice, I love it <3