Stranger In Moscow

(album: HIStory - Past, Present And Future - Book 1 - 1995)

I was wandering in the rain
Mask of life, feeling insane
Swift and sudden fall from grace
Sunny days seem far away
Kremlin's shadow belittling 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 dogging 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?

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. Hee
Lord have mercy

We're talking danger
We're talking danger, baby
Like a stranger in Moscow

We're talking danger
We're talking danger, baby
Like a stranger in Moscow

I'm living lonely
I'm living lonely, baby
Stranger in Moscow

I'm living lonely
I'm living lonely, baby
Stranger in Moscow

[KGB interrogator in Russian:]
"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?"
[English translation:
"Why have you come, the enemy, from the west? Confess.
Have you come to steal from us the great achievements of the people?
The great accomplishments of the workers?
Confess. Have you tried hard to bribe the people with the riches of the west?"]