Στον τεσσαρακοστό δεύτερο διαγωνισμό τραγουδιού της Eurovision που φιλοξενήθηκε στο Δουβλίνο, τη διοργανώτρια χώρα εκπροσώπησε ο Marc Roberts με το τραγούδι του "Mysterious Woman" (Μυστηριώδεις Γυναίκα), σε μουσική και στίχους του John Farry. Διαγωνίσθηκε από τη πέμπτη θέση και τερμάτισε στη δεύτερη θέση με 157 βαθμούς.
ESC 1997: 02. Marc Roberts: "Mysterious Woman"
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού:
I saw you at an airport
Ticket in your hand
I got a feeling in my heart
I didn't understand
Something in the way you were
Something foreign in your eyes
Made me wish that I could share
One moment of your life
Mysterious woman
I wonder, did you see
The kind of spell you put on me?
Mysterious woman
I wish I could find the key
To the kind of spell you put on me
The room was full of faces
But you stood out from the crowd
People going places
Far away beyond the clouds
Were you from the streets of Paris
Or the coast of Italy?
Or were you from as far away
As the gulf of Araby?
Mysterious woman
I wonder, did you see
The kind of spell you put on me?
Mysterious woman
I wish I could find the key
To the kind of spell you put on me
Did I imagine you smiled
Or were my thoughts going wild?
Suddenly you were going
The speaker called your plane
There was no way of knowing
If I'd ever see you again
But this brief, so brief encounter
Will always stay with me
I will always treasure
The bittersweet memory
Mysterious woman
I wonder, did you see
The kind of spell you put on me?
Mysterious woman
It'll always be a mystery
The kind of spell you put on me
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