"Carry Me in Your Dreams" represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, after Tola won the country's pre-selection competition, Festivali i Këngës 47, with the Albanian-language version "Më merr në ëndërr".
During her Cirque du Soleil-described show of the song, she was performing against slightly dark-coloured LED screens and was accompanied by three dancers and two backing vocalists.
Tola took part with the song "Më merr në ëndërr", composed by Edmond Zhulali and written by Agim Doçi.
[2] "Më merr në ëndërr" had a duration time of more than four minutes and contained a guitar solo in its beginnings as well as several instrumental passages throughout the song.
[3] Musically, "Carry Me in Your Dreams" is an uptempo electronic and disco song with "some text book schlager rhythms and key change".
[4] The website's Riccardo expressed praise towards the song's ethnic nature and the instrumental part near the end simultaneously calling it "mesmerising".
[4] The national broadcaster of Albania, Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH), organised the 47th edition of Festivali i Këngës to determine the country's participant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
[18] On stage, Tola performed against slightly dark LED screens whose colors were predominately a mixture of red, orange, yellow and white.