Representing Slovenia in this year's Eurovision Song Contest are band Joker Out.
Joker Out will be performing at the competition, which is being held at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena, with their song Carpe Diem.
Slovenia’s odds of winning the contest were200/1 ahead of the show, according to Ladbrokes.
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The band, who are originally from Slovenia’s capital city Ljubljana, is made up of singer Bojan Cvjetićanin, drummer Jure Maček, guitarist Kris Guštin, guitarist Jan Peteh, and bassist Nace Jordan.
The indie rock five-piece were formed in 2016 and have since released two albums. They have received huge success in their home country and have won two consecutive Artist of the Year honours at Slovenia’s Zlata piščal awards.
Carpe Diem is sung in Slovene, with the band saying they wanted to ‘translate Slovenian into a universal language of dance and entertainment that all countries understand’.
The song is about making the most of the moment and acting as if there is ‘no tomorrow’.
Slovenia first appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1993 and has appeared 28 times since. Their highest placements came in 1995 and 2001 when the country came seventh.
This year's Eurovision Song Contest festivities kicked off last Sunday when the 37 competing acts took to a turquoise carpet welcome ceremony. Semi-final events then took place on Tuesday and Thursday night.
Mae Muller, 25, will compete for the UK with her track I Wrote A Song. Also competing in the grand final is France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Moldova, Switzerland, Finland, Czechia, Norway, Israel, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, Cyprus, Estonia, Belgium, Austria, Lithuania, Poland, Australia, Armenia and Slovenia.
The grand final takes place on Saturday from 8pm, live on BBC One.
The lyrics in full to Carpe Diem
Below are the lyrics in Slovene as it is sung:
Mi bomo celo noč plesali
Ljubili se in se igrali
Kot da nas jutri več ne bo
Vedno manj besed, tanek led pod nogami žge
Mi pa bežimo s prepiha
810.000 let moraš delat’ le
Da duša malo zadiha
(An ban, pet podgan)
Ti loviš, če preživiš
(Jaz ti bom vzel vse)
Ti ničesar ne dobiš
(A, a, a)
Si tega res želiš?
Igra sovraštva je za vas, hvala lepa
Ne računajte na nas
Na nas
Mi bomo celo noč plesali
Ljubili se in se igrali
Kot da nas jutri več ne bo
Ne bomo šteli ur do zore
Preskakovali bomo gore
Da nas objame nebo
Prvi dež odplaknil ves bo blišč
Da ne bi kradel magije s plesišč
Tema bo prižgala žar v očeh
Igra sovraštva je za vas, hvala lepa
Ne računajte na nas
Še bolj na glas
Mi bomo celo noč plesali
Ljubili se in se igrali
Kot da nas jutri več ne bo
Ne bomo šteli ur do zore
Preskakovali bomo gore
Sprejeli, da smo večni samo
In srečni samo, ko objema nas nebo
Vso noč do jutra smo plesali
Ljubili se in se igrali
Živeli, kot da jutri nаѕ mogoče več
Ne bo
Translated to English:
We’ll be dancing all night long
We’ll love each other and play
As if there was no tomorrow
Ever fewer words, thin ice burning under our feet
But we’re running away from the draught
You must only work for 810,000 years
To make your soul breathe a little
(Eeny, meeny, miny, moe)
You win if you stay alive
(I’ll take everything)
You get nothing
(Ah ah ahh)
Do you really want it like this?
The game of hatred is your thing
Thank you, don’t count on us
On us
We’ll be dancing all night long
We’ll love each other and play
As if there was no tomorrow
We won’t count the hours until the dawn arises
We’ll jump across the mountains
To be embraced by the sky
The first rain will wash away all the fake glitter
So it stops stealing the magic from the dance floors
The darkness will bring out the shine in our eyes
The game of hatred is your thing
Thank you, don’t count on us
We’ll be even louder
We’ll be dancing all night long
We’ll love each other and play
As if there was no tomorrow
We won’t count the hours until the dawn arises
We’ll jump across the mountains
We’ll accept that we are eternal and happy
Only as long as the sky keeps embracing us
We danced, loved, and played all night
We lived as if there wаѕ
No tomorrow
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