Welcome to the thread for the Fifth ATRL Songfest!


Here's how it goes:

Starting at 7, all 15 songs (yep, the last contestant got in) will be posted. Then, voting commences. The contestants (now, one is exempt due to having told me back in early September) do the traditional vote as follows:

12 points -
10 points -
08 points -
07 points -
06 points -
05 points -
04 points -
03 points -
02 points -
01 points -

YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR YOUR ENTRY. SERIOUSLY. Only vote on the other 14 songs.

As for the guest juries: if you did not compete but wish to vote, you can! I've increased the amount of songs you can vote for to 6 and how the points are assigned:

8 points -
6 points -
4 points -
3 points -
2 points -
1 points -

Now, when voting, please use this listing as well as list the COUNTRY name associated with the song.

Songs begin with Iceland in 15 minutes

01 Iceland, "Understand"

I now understand
What's wrong with myself today
Why I can't pick the right words to say
Why I speak out of my hand
Still thinking I'm high in demand

Crisis swells my sockets
As I frantically rip off the pockets
At loss because my stash is gone
How could intuitions be so wrong

The largest pig
In the capitalistic pigpen
Thinking I was so big
Finally meeting the slaughterhouse
Trembling like a mouse
Even a few lines can't make it a ten

Won't live throught this bloody fight
To think it seemed to be going right
Before acid ate it's way through me
Breathe, my happiness is still the key
Bloody fleshwounds, do they matter
20 pounds less, never getting fatter
Beauty is always there, there
Just tired of playing truth or dare

Another pill will do the trick
Don't you dare tell me I'm sick
It all goes down to making the right pick
So here I am choosing my grave
Wishing on a star it could be a bit larger

02 Spain, "Bits of Love"

Into you, into you, into you

This feeling's new, oh mi amor
I have never felt like this before
I've told you everything there is to know
You're my soulmate and I love you so
We've never met
But you keep me wet
Everything that we are I will never regret
A magic chemical
It is changing me
Our passion is like a dream
And I submerge into the screen

I'm sending bits of love
Zeroes and ones from the heart
Pop-ups and firewalls
Can never tear us apart
These particles of light
Our skins electrified
I'm part of every little thing you do
As I upload myself into you, into you, into you
Upload myself into you, into you, into you

Each click is a finger running over my body
Each keystroke a tongue that is driving me crazy
Something is blinking and I know you are home
Because of your presence I am never alone
We've never met
But you keep me wet
If I didn't have you I would rather be dead
Your magic messages
They are changing me
Our passion is like a dream
And I submerge into the screen

I'm sending bits of love
Zeroes and ones from the heart
Pop-ups and firewalls
Can never tear us apart
These particles of light
Our skins electrified
I'm part of every little thing you do
As I upload myself into you, into you, into you
Upload myself into you, into you, into you

Yeah the space bar's our sweat drops that are melting together
And print screen's our marriage that will last forever
Caps locked into your arms I am screaming your name
I shift to take control and insert it again
Feel my bits of love as they burst into you
We will explode in a binary boolean so true
We'll be terabytes moving through cyberspace
Even though I have never seen your face

I'm sending bits of love
Zeroes and ones from the heart
Pop-ups and firewalls
Can never tear us apart
These particles of light
Our skins electrified
I'm part of every little thing you do
As I upload myself into you, into you, into you
Upload myself into you, into you, into you

03 Sweden, "Favorite Boy"

From the day I laid eyes on your face,
I knew heaven lost an angel from its gates.
When I think about the times we use to have,
I would smile, cause theres nothing better than this Joy I have all the time.

Because your my favorite boy(sent from heaven up above)
Your my favorite boy(make me crazy all the time)
Your my favorite angel(theres nothing more I can say)
(You know) your my favorite angel.

The more I see how you look infront of me
I almost die cause of the way you make me feel up inside
I can only be the best I can when you are around
Because theres no other boy out there for me

Because your my favorite boy(sent from heaven up above)
Your my favorite boy(make me crazy all the time)
Your my favorite angel(theres nothing more I can say)
(You know) your my favorite angel.

Break it down.
Baby don't you know I will make you smile.(make you smile)
baby dont worry, I'll still be around.
Don't think about those things said about you
cause they're nothing more than lies.

Because your my favorite boy(sent from heaven up above)
Your my favorite boy(make me crazy all the time)
Your my favorite angel(theres nothing more I can say)
(You know) your my favorite angel.

Theres only one person who can make me feel this way.
I don't know why but you, you got me wondering, if I can love you
I guess that's why.

04 Croatia, "Let It Go"

The day will come, the day is here.
The day that I, will shed a tear.
Will stop pretending and start to see,
Not what's good for others but what is good for me.

No more games, no more hurt,
No more shame and no regrat.
Just live my life as who I really am
And just tell the story of my name.

Will, stop thinking
And let it go.
Stop planing
And let everyone know.
Who I trurly am
and who I want to be
Cuz the truth, it sets you free.

A night has come, a night is gone
But we are still here, where we belong.
In this world, In this life,
Where the silence is sharp just like a blade of knife.

Where we are nothing
but nothing means all
Where everyone wants to stand
but you only stand, to take a fall

05 Germany, "Puppeteer"

Everyday I feel as if I’m her entertainment
Cause in the spotlight I follow all her restrictions
It’s like she brainwashed me into her own personal slave
It’s like she’s making every single step that I take
Even my friends they tried to warn me that she’s no good
But I’ve gotten into deep now I’m playing the fool
Behind the scenes I’m the lion in the cage
And she’s the ring master so I do everything she says

I should’ve believed them when they said that she was a trick
But now I’ve never been myself cause I’ve been whipped
If I could press rewind believe me I would
But every time that she’s around I get completely misunderstood cause

Its like she reached down into my soul
Got me saying words that I’ve never said before
In a blink of an eye she can take down your veneer
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer
Playing with my emotions
Playing with my mind
Playing with my heart
Tearing it apart
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer

She is like a female version of a man
There are so many similarities that I can’t even begin
She has numerous drawers filled up with their numbers
And remembrance nicknames that they each call each other
Now believe me I would be leaving if I could
But she’s got some psychological lockdown that keeps me emotionally abused
Now isn’t the man suppose to be wearing the pants in a relationship
Cause right now I feel like a dog learning its ownership

She’s seriously a person that can turn a good guy gone bad
But I’m just an addictive that needs to go to rehab
But I can’t seem to stray too far from the controller
My strings are permanently attached to her fingers and no other cause

Its like she reached down into my soul
Got me saying words that I’ve never said before
In a blink of an eye she can take down your veneer
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer
Playing with my emotions
Playing with my mind
Playing with my heart
Tearing it apart
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer

Lights, Camera, Action
She’s the center of my attention
She’s my total obsession
The spotlights shines so bright
Its time to show what I’ve been practicing
Its time to show what she’s been saying

Its like she reached down into my soul
Got me saying words that I’ve never said before
In a blink of an eye she can take down your veneer
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer
Playing with my emotions
Playing with my mind
Playing with my heart
Tearing it apart
She plays me like a rag doll cause she’s nothing but a puppeteer

06 Turkey, "Hell In Return"

What am I to do
What am I to say
When my world has gone
From black to white
To thirteen shades of grey
What's the difference
Between good and obscene
The line's been drawn
But in my state of mind
It can't be seen

Talk behind my back
And I'll talk behind yours
I fight fire with fire
I'm not afraid of being burned
You think you know me
But I think you really don't
You hurt me once
Prepare to receive hell in return

Am I crazy
Am I insane
Or somewhere in the middle
Looking to obtain
The things I want
See this passion I have
You can't contain
I'm just like you
Yet you have the nerve
To call me insane

Talk behind my back
And I'll talk behind yours
I fight fire with fire
I'm not afraid of being burned
You think you know me
But I think you really don't
Did you think you'd hurt me
And not recieve hell in return

Don't come to me
Like you've done no wrong
What's said is said
There is no moving along
This is a war
You brought upon yourself

Talk behind my back
And I'll talk behind yours
I fight fire with fire
I'm not afraid of being burned
You think you know me
But I think you really don't
Did you think you'd hurt me
And not receive hell in return

07 France, "I Ain't Yo Ho"

ayo
i ain't your hoe
i'mma kick yo face
with a knife

ayo
i ain't your hoe
i will easily
ruin your life

NOW WALK IT OUT CRANK THAT **** WOMANIZE YOSELF EAT A TWINKIE DRINK YO MILK AND THEN WE'RE DONE NOW BACK TO DA CHORUS

ayo
i aint your hoe
you smell like feces

ayo i aint your hoe
IMMA CUT YO ASS INTA PIECES
YO DIS IS FRANCE YO DIS IS MY BIG BREAK ON THE HIP HOP MARKET
BUY MY SONG AND MY CHEESE BASTARDZ

08 Russian Federation, "Scandalous"

Everyone got their eyes on you
Lookin' at everything you do
You act like you're very mean
But for me I know what really is in

You have caught their attention
But still haven't got my affection
Keep on thinkin' 'bout what I know
Watch those little lies and look at them go

You're just so scandalous
Hot dress, expensive shoes
You still can't find the clues
But when you do, you don't know what to choose

Still carrying those plastic bags
It seems those clothes serves as gags
For everyone to see I'm such a nag
Tryin' to put your lies under the rag

You're just so scandalous
Hot dress, expensive shoes
You still can't find the clues
But when you do, you don't know what to choose

Just look at the back
Like their eyes have a crack
Waiting for what you're gonna do
But I guess you don't know who are you

You're just so scandalous
I don't think you really are glamorous
You'll never find the hidden clues
Even if you do, you still don't know what to choose

09 Bosnia & Herzegovenia, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"

Five hours till sunrise comes
Eight hours till I watch you cry
I know that we both are done
Still wanna give it one more try

Your words shoot bullets through
Rip my body and soul apart
Take aim and please make it true
'Lest you miss and don't break my heart

Smoldering stars start explosively ending
The end of my old life is only beginning
You're all of my love, but you're part of the problem
So please fade away as I now try to solve them

I can see that you're hurting now
I know that our love's burned out
I can't help but keep thinking how
I can help you before I have my doubts

Do you really need to scream?
This train wreck has no relief
Soon we'll wish this was just a dream
I'll feel better when you finally leave

Smoldering stars start explosively ending
The end of my old life is only beginning
You're all of my love, but you're part of the problem
So please fade away as I now try to solve them

This really has run aground
This ignorance clouds my mind
Just leave now without a sound
I'm leaving this love behind

Smoldering stars start explosively ending
The end of my old life is only beginning
You're all of my love, but you're part of the problem
So please fade away as I now try to solve them

10 United Kingdom, "I Killed Myself"

The bitter wind, singing its misery for me
I lay in the white glitter of the ice princess
welcoming me into her soft bed

Everything left behind me
Life's sorrow far behind me
Only clean white in every direction

The bitter cold, creeping into my warm heart, heart, heart
Slowly, inching, creeping its way into me
THe fog of death on my eyes, inviting me into his hand

I lay here
Everything left behind me
Life's sorrow far behind me
Only kind black in every direction

Buried by cold cotton
Life is muffled
THe sting of the singing wind
Giving me my desire

I killed myself

11 Norway, "I Am Love (Believe)"

If there's a word
to describe,
the feeling that you feel
when you feel what you're feeling tonight
Then I know,
when I go you'll be,
worriedly, constantly, frantically
losing your life.

Believe,
just believe.
There is so much more than the normal way
Succeed
and achieve
I am everything you want.

I am lost in translation
with no definition
a theory killed by the mind.
I'm a word with a meaning
A reason for being
Alive and content and just swell.
I am love.
Oooh.
I am love.

When it seems
like there's nothing left to give,
you can keep on pushing,
pushing and live.
'Cause it's real, oh it's not a game
it can make you or break you.
Depends on the depth of the rain

Believe,
just believe.
There is so much more to than the normal way
Succeed
and achieve
I am everything you want.

I am lost in translation
with no definition
a theory killed by the mind.
I'm a word with a meaning
A reason for being
Alive and content and just swell.
I am love
Oooh.
I am love.

The world is going and gone,
I'm meaningless and there's nothing to me.
I wish I'd stand a chance
Against the evil's wrath

I will find my way home,
find my way home.

I am lost in translation
with no definition
a theory killed by the mind.
I'm a word with a meaning
A reason for being
Alive and content and just swell.
I am love.
Oooh.
I am love.
Oooh Oh.
I am love.

12 Belgium, "Claustrophiliac"

No matter where you go
I will follow, I'll always know
Just wanna see you breathe
and feel you see all over me
See I don't know how to explain this..
infatuation
This sudden lust for inhalation (of your soul)
I'll just embrace this

Every time you go away
I feel a piece of me falling astray
I feel you working on my inner being
I can't let you get away from me

Come a little closer (don't run away)
Absorb in your aura (until I suffocate)
I don't know why I feel like this
It's like I can't escape, like I can't escape
I don't wanna escape

I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-
I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-
I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-

I feel it in my bones
It only grows, it never slows
You're sinking in so deep
I'm feeling weak, but my eyes won't weep
My mind's conflicted by desires
To want you near
and to keep you here in my arms
While your essence smothers me

Every time you go away
I start to feel my life slipping away
I feel you filling up my inner being
I'll die if you ever stray from me

Come a little closer (don't run away)
Absorb in your aura (until I suffocate)
I don't know why I feel like this
It's like I can't escape, like I can't escape
I don't wanna escape

I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-
I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-
I'm a claustrophilliac
I'm a claustrophi-

13 Serbia, "Pride Over Love"

There's no love in the air
No reasons for despair
No time for so much tears
No mechanisms for fears

Broken, burned and shattered
But never felt the hurt
It's such a great fulfillment
Satisfaction for selfish development

It sucks so much that you didn't love me
Forward more on him than me
I never expected your pride over your love
I've felt your warmth, but never seen your trust
I thought your faith is there before
I never sensed the lack of them more
I'm surely total of your love to me
That no pride is there to fad it fully

There you are in the mall
Hands with him in the goal
Then he kissed you so hard
You kissed back with all your heart

At first I never felt insecure
I thought of your love so very pure
I still believe we are together forever
Badly weeping, for I don't mind the punch of hurt

It sucks so much that you didn't love me
Forward more on him than me
I never expected your pride over your love
I've felt your warmth, but never seen your trust
I thought your faith is there before
I never sensed the lack of them more
I'm surely total of your love to me
That no pride is there to fad it fully

Realization is never my best for good and hard times
But the hurt is at superlative, and I can't take it anymore
Finally, I break free and locate my real self
I'm so having my freedom, so goodbye to your heart

(And still it hurts, but I need to)

It sucks so much that you didn't love me (Yeah, you didn't love me)
Forward more on him than me (Ooh, so much for him)
I never expected your pride over your love (Over my love, baby)
I've felt your warmth, but never seen your trust (I'm sorry, but now I'm free)
I thought your faith is there before (I've been a fool)
I never sensed the lack of them more (I've been stupid, oh my baby)
I'm surely total of your love to me (I love you but I have to say this)
That no pride is there to fade it fully (Goodbye to you, pride over love)

14 Denmark, "Think In..."

Suddenly I do not know what happens to me
Suddenly I do not know who I am
Suddenly I do not recognize anything that one day I was

Today I wonder what changed inside of me
Today I wonder where I'm going to

And maybe there are no answers for what I'm trying to resolve

This time I come and looking for the heart
This time I will try it again
This time and many more times I will try to do it right
And think in what I want and what I need...
If life will give me... a new or another chance

Suddenly I do not know what happens to me
Suddenly I do not know who I am
And maybe there are no answers for what I'm trying to resolve

This time I don't want another illusion
This time I will try it again
This time and many more times I will try to do it right
And think in what I want and what I need...
If life will give me... a new or another chance

Everytime I ask to myself what's going on
Everytime I try to find the truth and
Think in what I want and what I need...
This time...

And maybe there are no answers for what I'm trying to resolve
But I will try to find the answers
If life will give me... a new or another chance

A new or another chance...

15 Azerbaijan, "fiftyonefifty"

I'm gonna embrace it...

Call me crazy
Call me mad
Call me anytime to see what I can do
Circle around in those Benz I got you
Click and sell to everyone that wants to see me
Baby, it's not even fair that I am down
For all you wanted was my celebrity
How about next time I chase you down
Thats right...
I'm gonna embrace it

If I'm going crazy
I don't give a damn
I will make me over
Until you understand
You can fly all your helicopters
Around my own head
And I will finally lose it
And you can take me away...away...away
For my fifty one fifty

Oh...oh...
Fifty-one-fifty
Oh...oh...
I'm gonna embrace it

Your damn rules drive me mad
I scream into a mirror
I just don't understand
Why you'd even question what I want to do
If I share myself more
Will you want to see me (of course)
I bet you're hooked up on me
Cuz I'll drive you mad

If I'm going crazy
I don't give a damn
I will make me over
Until you understand
You can fly all your helicopters
Around my own head
And I will finally lose it
And you can take me away...away...away
For my fifty one fifty

I hear them buzzing around me...
Surrounding my home
And I can't make myself careeeeeeeeeeee!

If I'm going crazy
I don't give a damn
I will make me over
Until you understand
You can fly all your helicopters
Around my own head
And I will finally lose it
And you can take me away...away...away
For my fifty one fifty

Oh...oh...
Fifty-one-fifty
Oh...oh...
Fifty-one...

Ta-Da! We have all 15 songs up! Now, you get to vote until a rather late hour of 8:30pm MST tomorrow.

Contestant:
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Guest juries:
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6 points -
4 points -
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2 points -
1 points -

Make sure to list the country next to the points you want to give it. And don't vote for yourself.

PM THE VOTES TO ME! NO POSTY VOTES HERE. But feel free to comment in thread over the songs if you'd like.

Nice stuff.

Bits of Love is so cool!

Definitely better than the last songfest!