From the Broadway production “Kismet”, 1953. Words and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Based on themes of A. Borodin.
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Lyrics
Take my hand, I’m a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That’s a danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside
An angel like you
I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there’s a chance that you care
Won’t you answer the fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise?
Don’t send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for
But open your angel’s arms
To the stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more
Performance
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