Lyric Lane: Euphoria von Loreen
Extreme happiness. Joy. Ecstasy. The winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Loreen, took a word for the title of her song which describes intense happiness.
The feeling of euphoria is usually short-lived. It cannot last forever. 28-year-old Loreen must have been feeling it when she won Europe’s biggest musical competition in Baku, but other people can also experience euphoria at other, less spectacular moments of their lives: maybe after winning an important football game or passing a difficult test or seeing a wild animal in the forest.
Euphoria is always triggered by something on the outside, an event, an experience. This is where euphoria is different to true happiness. Happiness is not triggered by things on the outside. True happiness exists inside of us. That’s why people can only ever experience euphoria for a short period of time. Otherwise they would probably go crazy. But if we understand what makes the happiness inside of us, then we can carry it with us for a long time - maybe even forever.
„Forever“ is a word which is central to Loreen’s dance hit. She doesn’t want the euphoria to be short-lived. She wants it to last forever. „Why can’t this moment last forevermore?“ she asks in the first line of her song. „Tonight, eternity is an open door ...“ This is one of the big questions behind the Eurovision Song Contest: the competition opens doors, yes, but where do those doors lead to? „Eternity“ is what the Swedish singer wants in her song. „Forever, until the end of time / We’re going up-up-up-up.“ She wants to make an „everlasting piece of art“ and sail with it „into infinity“. Higher and higher! Loreen likes superlatives, big words, the biggest words, words like“eternity“ and „infinity“, words that can only go up.
But as we all know, what goes up, most come down, and nothing lasts forever. Like Lena before her - and like many other winners of the Eurovision Song Contest - Loreen will have to be careful that her sudden rise up-up-up to fame doesn’t leave her feeling empty and alone after the euphoria is over.
Vokabeln
joy = Freude
to describe = beschreiben
happiness = Glück
short-lived = kurzlebig
to last = dauern
to experience = erleben
to trigger = auslösen
event = Ereignis
true = wahr / echt
forever = für immer / ewig
eternity = Ewigkeit
to lead = führen
everlasting = ewig andauernd
infinity = das Unendliche
to lead sb/ sth = jdn/ etw führen
careful = vorsichtig
rise = Aufstieg
fame = Ruhm
