Why Me? (song)

Why Me? (song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Ireland Why Me?


caption =
year = 1992
country = Ireland
artist = Linda Martin
as =
with =
language = English
languages =
composer = Seán Michael Patrick Sherrard
lyricist = Seán Michael Patrick Sherrard
conductor = Noel Kelehan
place = 1st
points = 155
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1992ie from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wglhk7k5FA from YouTube]
prev = Could It Be That I'm In Love
prev_link = Could It Be That I'm In Love
next = In Your Eyes
next_link = In Your Eyes (Niamh Kavanagh song)

"Why Me?" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed for Ireland by Linda Martin.

The result was also notable as the song was composed by Johnny Logan, who had previously won the Contest with What's Another Year? and the self-composed Hold Me Now. Logan is, to date, the only person to win the Contest with a song composed for him, win the Contest with his own song and then compose another winner.

The song itself is a ballad, which builds in intensity towards the end. The singer describes her thoughts about her lover, and asks why she is the lucky one to have his love, as against anyone else.

The song was performed seventeenth on the night (following the United Kingdom's Michael Ball with One Step Out Of Time and preceding Denmark's Kenny Lübcke & Lotte Nilsson with Alt Det Som Ingen Ser). At the close of voting, it had received 155 points, placing 1st in a field of 23.

The song was succeeded in 1993 as winner by Niamh Kavanagh, also representing Ireland, with In Your Eyes.


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