Shine On Your Shoes Lyrics

Stranger In Paradise

-Artist: Tony Bennett from "The Very Thought Of You"-Columbia AL—30758
-peak Billboard position # 2 in 1954
-competing versions charted by The Four Aces (#3), Tony Martin (#10) and
-Gordon MacRae (#29)
-from the musical "Kismet"-based on Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances"
-Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest


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 the 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 this 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 this stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more



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