Stranger in Paradise/And This Is My Beloved (From ”Kismet”)

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've hunger for

But open your angel arms
To the stranger in Paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more

Dawn's promising skies
Petals on a pool, drifting
Imagine these in one pair of eyes
And this is my beloved!

Strange spice from the South
Honey through a comb, sifting
Imagine these in one eager mouth
And this is my beloved

And when she speaks
And when she talks to me
Music! Mystery!
And when she moves
And when she walks with me
Paradise comes suddenly near

All that can stir
All that can stun
All that's for the heart's lifting
Imagine these in one perfect one

And this is my beloved
And this is my... beloved