Mysterious Woman was the Irish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 in Dublin performed by Marc Roberts.
The song is a moderately up-tempo number, with Roberts singing about a woman he saw at an airport (with a "Ticket in your hand"). He sings that he was instantly attracted to her, despite having no knowledge about where she was from or where she was going. In the course of his musing, he wonders if she was perhaps from Paris, Italy or even "the gulf of Araby". As the song ends, however, she has been called to board her plane and he is left still wondering about her.
It was performed 5th following Austria and preceding Slovenia. At the close of voting, it finished in second place with 157 points. To date, this remains the last time Ireland had a song that placed in the top five.
Lyrics[]
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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Marc Roberts - Mysterious Woman (Eurovision Song Contest 1997, IRELAND) official video
ESC 1997 - Ireland - Marc Roberts - Mysterious woman -HQ-