Peace in Europe

All that violence, it’s awful. But some things fill you full of hope. It used to be something you’d take the piss out of, but Latvia have just won the Eurovision Song Contest again!! It’s a really cool song too about peace and harmony and how countries can live together yet still be Latvians. Ours was crap as usual. But you still get some people moaning about the voting being unfair. But it’s not long ago they didn’t even have the vote! That’s another thing about here—you get really good food. And some of it’s foreign! I like that, shows respect for other cultures.
Anyway, it starts off really gloomy, with babies wailing and bombs and machine guns. Then there’s these really dark chords on synths:

Bonjour Peace, Kalimera Love

There is murder in the sky
And the babies start to cry
Then a million people die
And it makes me wonder why
Can’t we get together all the world
Make sweet harmony and music
Singing. . .

(Then it lifts up and it’s a really optimistic chorus:)

Bonjour peace
Kalimera love
Auf wiedersehn to bombs and guns
Hold hands across the nations
Wave adios to war.

There’s no dinner on the table
And the babies look disabled
‘Cos there’s nothing in their bellies
I know I’ve seen it on the telly
Can’t we get together all the world
Make sweet harmony and music
Singing. . . [chorus]

Rain forest trees are falling
Babies die from global warming
Codfish are dead from trawling
But I hear the sperm whales calling:
Can’t we get together all the world
Make sweet harmony and music
Singing. . . [chorus]

Then these Latvian schoolkids sing along with the chorus, and there’s whales mooing and cooing, and it all ends on hope. This is the new FreeEuroVision, of course—that’s the New Style Europe, nobody watches the other lot’s channels. I think Latvia must be on our side now. But there’s still war despite all the songs.