PHIL COLLINS - STRANGERS LIKE ME

STRANGERS LIKE ME

PHIL COLLINS

SONGWRITER: Mark Mancina & Phil Collins

COUNTRY: U.K.

MOVIE: TARZAN

ALBUM: TARZAN

LABEL: WALT DISNEY RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1999

"Strangers Like Me" is a song by the English singer Phil Collins for the soundtrack of Disney's 1999 animated film Tarzan. The song peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

This song has also appeared in the film's Broadway musical.

The song talks about Tarzan's fascination with Jane, Professor Porter, and Clayton, as well as the wider human world he has yet to see. The song has a verse describing Tarzan's feelings for Jane.

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is lead singer of the rock band Genesis and is also a solo artist. Between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, Collins has more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include" In the Air Tonight", "Against ALL Odds (Take a Look at me Now), "One More Night", "Sussudio" and "aNother Day in Paradise".  
 

Whatever you do, I'll do it too

Show me everything and tell me how

It all means something and yet nothing to me

I can see there is too much to learn

It's all so close and yet so far

I see myself as people see me

I just know there's something bigger out there

I want to know, can you show me?

I want to know about the strangers like me

Tell me more, please show me

Something is familiar about the strangers like me

Every gesture, every move that she makes

Makes me feel like never before

Why do I have this growing need

Need to be beside her?

There are some emotions that I never knew

Some for the world far beyond this place

Beyond the trees and above the clouds

I see before me a new horizon

I want to know, can you show me?

I want to know about the strangers like me

Tell me more, please show me

Something is familiar about the strangers like me

Come with me now to see my world

Where there's beauty beyond your dreams

Can you feel the things I feel right now with you?

Take my hand there's a world I need to know

I want to know, can you show me?

I want to know about the strangers like me

Tell me more, please show me

Something is familiar about the strangers like me.