Alyosha - Sweet People - Ukraine, Eurovision 2010 - Official Video & Lyrics

Alyosha sings Sweet People for the Ukraine Eurovision 2010 song contest entry, having reached the final from the semi-finals stage.  Alyosha, whose real name is Olena Kucher, is a 24-year-old from Zaporizhya.   She studied vocals at the Kyiv National Institute of Culture and Arts and signed with the Catapult Music record label in 2008.  Lovely lyrics, meaningful song with a message for the world to look after our home, this earth and the people in it, we hope it will do well in the final.  Good luck to Ukraine.

[Postscript: Ukraine finished  10th, with 108 points, but deserved a much higher vote.]

These are Alyosha’s final & semi-final performances on Eurovision 2010:

And here is her winning song performance from the Ukrainian 2010 competition, again a very popular video:

Lyrics for Sweet People by Alyosha, Ukraine, Eurovision 20

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.