Denmark
Eurovision debut: 1957
Total appearances to date: 51
Best finish: Three-time winners - 1963 (Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann, 'Dansevise'), 2000 (Olsen Brothers, 'Fly On The Wings Of Love'), 2013 (Emmelie de Forest, 'Only Teardrops')
2023 performance: Failed to qualify for final (Reiley, 'Breaking My Heart')
Official broadcaster: DR
2024 selection process: National selection, 'Dansk Melodi Grand Prix'
Artist: Saba, a 26-year-old singer, musical theatre actress and model
Song: 'Sand'
Songwriter(s): Jonas Thander, Melanie Wehbe, Pil Kalinka Nygaard, Jeppesen
Language: English
Sounds Like: Rita Ora's 2025 comeback single
Official music video
Lyrics
Yesterday is eating up my mind
You and me we couldn't get it right
We were throwing memories in the air
Bits and pieces lying everywhere
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
Bits and pieces lying everywhere
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
Bits and pieces like we didn't care
Shouldn't be so hard
Like breathing under water
Baby, we've been in the blue
Didn't see it coming
Falling into nothing
Ain't there something we can do
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
I can feel you slipping through my hands
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
Guess we built a castle out of sand
Yesterday I had you by my side
Now we're just like strangers in the night
Pictures of us lying on the floor
No, I can't do this fighting anymore
Cause it shouldn't be so hard
Like breathing under water
Baby, we've been in the blue
Didn't see it coming
Falling into nothing
Ain't there something we can do
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
I can feel you slipping through my hands
Uh-uh-uh-uuh
Guess we built a castle out of sand
Sand,
Sand
I can feel you slipping through my hands
Sand,
Sand,
Guess we built a castle out of sand
Shouldn't be so hard
Like breathing underwater
Shouldn't be so hard
Like breathing underwater
Uh-uh-uh-uuh yeaaa
Sand,
Sand,
I can feel you slipping through my hands
Sand,
Sand
Guess we built a castle out of sand
Performance schedule: Saba will perform seventh in the first semi-final on Tuesday, May 7
Bookmaker odds: 250/1
Neil Wilkes
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