Nurture your Nature

Rise like a Phoenix 🇦🇹 [13+]

Austria 🇦🇹 doesn't do too well in Eurovision. It's been a rough road post-Mozart. No longer the center of a mighty empire it does not have the population, prestige or power it once wielded.

These days it's also helpful to have the resources and experience.

Enter Conchita... She had placed 2nd in the national contest a couple years before. Her bearded drag queen persona was controversial but she found support even in conservative Eastern Europe.

Me? Not my first choice before the contest. The video grew on me however, even when the final performance didn't. Conchita was regal in the competition; but, the video is steamy... like a hot tub full of red roses.

I do think her performance goes well with the song and the lyrics. Very strong lyrics, imho. It speaks to me personally as I've had some devastating setbacks that I barely survived.

To my friends and coworkers from 20 years ago: You wouldn't know me at all today.



"Rise Like A Phoenix"

Waking in the rubble
Walking over glass
Neighbors say we're trouble
Well that time has passed

Peering from the mirror
No, that isn't me
Stranger getting nearer
Who can this person be

You wouldn't know me at all today
From the fading light I fly

Rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes
Seeking rather than vengeance
Retribution
You were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn
You know I will rise like a phoenix
But you're my flame

Go about your business
Act as if you're free
No one could have witnessed
What you did to me

Cause you wouldn't know me today
And you have got to see
To believe
From the fading light I fly

Rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes
Seeking rather than vengeance
Retribution
You were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn

I rise up to the sky
You threw me down but
I'm gonna fly

And rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes
Seeking rather than vengeance
Retribution
You were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn
You know I will rise like a phoenix
But you're my flame