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 forresttake my handi'm a stranger in paradiseall lost in a wonderlanda stranger in paradiseif i stand starry-eyedthat's the danger in paradisefor mortals who stand beside an angel like youi saw your face and i ascendedout of the commonplace into the raresomewhere in space i hang suspendeduntil i know there's a chance that you carewon't you answer this fervent prayerof a stranger in paradise?don't send me in dark despair>from all that i hunger forbut open your angel's armsto this stranger in paradiseand tell him that he need bea stranger no more