Doretta Morrow - Stranger in Paradise

{MARSINAH}
Oh, why do the leaves
On a Mulberry tree
Whisper differently now
And why is the nightingale singing
At noon on a Mulberry bow

For some most mysterious reason
This isn't the garden I know
No, it's paradise now
That was only a garden
A moment ago

{CALIPH}
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 spacе
I hang suspended
Until I know
Therе'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

{MARSINAH}
I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the commonplace
Into the rare

{MARSINAH & CALIPH}
Somewhere in space
I hang suspended

{MARSINAH}
Until I know
There's a chance that you care
Won't you answer the fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise

{CALIPH}
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for

{MARSINAH & CALIPH}
But open your angel's arms
To the stranger in paradise
And tell me that I need be
A stranger no more