The artists of Eurovision 2019: The Netherlands

Duncan Laurence will represent The Netherlands at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Arcade'.

Duncan Laurence

Duncan Laurence. Source: SBS Eurovision

"I grew up in a town where music was a stranger," Duncan says. "Music had no part in the regular school system. But that couldn’t keep me from making music. Somehow I was drawn to its magical ways to express myself and tell my own story.

"We had a small local theatre and an old music school. I played the piano every single day, wrote my own songs and poems. I remember that time as if it was yesterday. I was certain: I was going to be a musician."

Arcade

English

A broken heart is all that's left 

I'm still fixing all the cracks

Lost a couple of pieces when

I carried it carried it carried it home

I'm afraid of all I am

My mind feels like a foreign land

Silence ringing inside my head

Please carry me carry me carry me home

I've spent all of the love I saved

We were always a losing game

Small town boy in a big arcade

I got addicted to a losing game

Oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

How many pennies in the slot

Giving us up didn't take a lot

I saw the end 'for it begun

Still I carried I carried, I carry on

Oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

I don’t need your games, game over

Get me off this rollercoaster

Oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

 


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