Stranger In Moscow

Album: HIStory (1995)
Charted: 4 91
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  • I was wandering in the rain
    Mask of life, feelin' insane
    Swift and sudden fall from grace
    Sunny days seem far away
    Kremlin's shadow belittlin' me
    Stalin's tomb won't let me be
    On and on and on it came
    Wish the rain would just let me

    How does it feel? (How does it feel?)
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel
    When you're alone and you're cold inside?

    Here, abandoned in my fame
    Armageddon of the brain
    KGB was doggin' me
    Take my name and just let me be
    Then a beggar boy called my name
    Happy days will drown the pain
    On and on and on it came, and again
    And again and again (take my name and just let me be)

    How does it feel? (How does it feel?)
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel? (How does it feel now?)
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel
    When you're alone and you're cold inside?

    (Привет, Michael)

    How does it feel? (How does it feel?)
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel? (How does it feel now?)
    How does it feel?
    How does it feel
    When you're alone and you're cold inside?

    Like a stranger in Moscow
    Lord, have mercy
    Like a stranger in Moscow
    Lord, have mercy
    We're talkin' danger
    We're talkin' danger, baby
    Like a stranger in Moscow

    We're talkin' danger
    We're talkin' danger, baby
    Like a stranger in Moscow
    I'm livin' lonely
    I'm livin' lonely, baby
    Stranger in Moscow

    Зачем приехал к нам ты, враг, от запада? Признайся
    Приехал, чтобы украсть от нас великие достижения народа?
    Великие труды рабочих? Признайся
    Подкупить народ богатством Запада старался? Writer/s: Michael Joe Jackson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Jake S from NigeriaThe song evokes how lonely he was at that time but not broke. It's MJ always remember that.
  • Eddie from SwedenIt wasn’t the last song to make an impact on the charts. You rock my world was the last song to really make an impact.
  • Kaz from C, OhThis song helped me get accepted into a performing arts school. I was only 11 playing this song. It was so beautiful yet sad. aww mike I wish i knew you. btw that song does song just like it.
  • Mike from Santa Barbara, CaOf all of Michael Jackson's songs, this is among his best. The video is also excellent, giving a sense of what life in Moscow is like for the ordinary people who live there.
  • Shauna from Atlatna, GaIn my opinion, this is a complete autobiographical song and only MJ new how to convey his feelings into such a beautiful song. I have never listened to an artist that sung a song with the emotion that he did. And the mucis choice is very haunting. Grest song MJ.
  • Alina from Brooklyn, NyYou can tell my the music video and the lyrics how much pain he felt. He is a great song writer because not alot of artist could of expressed their feelings through a song so well like Michael Jackson.
  • Brooke from London, United KingdomI think this is a beautiful song and every time I hear it, it reminds me of my own life and I get really emotional. I love it anyway.
  • Fulu from Limpopo, South Africamichael was expressing the feeling of loneliness through this song
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