'SPRING' THE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED IT
Sunday February 11 2007
"It's a kind of Celtic celebration of the Eastern European revolutions and their eventual outcome.
"The song is really inspired by the transformation in Europe in recent years. It is not political, but the title is prompted by the Prague Spring of 1968. However, it is really about the resilience of the human spirit, renewal, resurrection, revolution and human determination.
"The idea behind the title has to do with the reported response of Czech leader Alexander Dubcek in 1968 when he watched the Russian tanks ploughing over the flowers thrown at them by students protesting the Soviet suppression of the Prague Spring. 'They may crush the flowers,' he said, 'But they can't stop the Spring.'
"It would be another 22 years before the spark resulted in the revolution of 1989 which brought Vaclav Havel to power."
Waters and Moran are bound by Eurovision rules to ensure the lyrics are not published before the performance. But the lyrics speak of nations who "don't need no party, just a party band" and an Europe that is "united from Lissadel to Latvia".
