Kurt Weill - One Touch of Venus: I'm a Stranger Here Myself Lyrics

Lyrics One Touch of Venus: I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Kurt Weill



Tell me is love still a popular suggestion
Or merely an obsolete art?
Forgive me for asking, this simple question
I'm unfamiliar with his heart
I am a stranger here myself
Why is it wrong to murmur, "I adore him"
When it's shamefully obvious I do?
Does love embarrass him, or does it bore him?
I'm only waiting for my clue
I'm a stranger here myself
I dream of a day of a gay warm day
With my face between his hands
Have I missed the path? Have I gone astray?
I ask but no one understands
Love me or leave me
That seems to be the question
I don't know the tactics to use
But if he should offer
A personal suggestion
How could I possibly refuse
When I'm a stranger here myself?
Please tell me, tell a stranger
My curiosity goaded
Is there really any danger
That love his now out-moded?
I'm interested especially
In knowing why you waste it
True romance is so fleshly
With what have you replaced it?
What is your latest foibal?
Is Gin Rummy more exquisite?
Is skiing more enjoyable?
For heaven's sake what is it?
I can't believe
That love has lost its glamor
That passion is really passé
If gender is just a term in grammar
How can I ever find my way?
Since I'm a stranger here myself
How can he ignore my
Available condition?
Why these Victorian views?
You see here before you
A woman with a mission
I must discover the key to his ignition
And then if he should make
A diplomatic proposition
How could I possibly refuse?
How could I possibly refuse
When I'm a stranger here myself?



Writer(s): Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash


Kurt Weill - Speak Low: Songs by Kurt Weill & The Seven Deadly Sins (feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter)

1 Die sieben Todsünden: Prolog: "Meine Schwester und ich stammen aus Louisiana"
2 Die sieben Todsünden: I. Faulheit: "Hoffentlich nimmt sich unsre Anna auch zusammen"
3 Die sieben Todsünden: II. Stolz: "Als wir aber ausgestattet waren"
4 Die sieben Todsünden: III. Zorn: "Das geht nicht vorwärts"
5 Die sieben Todsünden: IV: Völlerei "Da ist ein Brief aus Philadelphia"
6 Die sieben Todsünden: V. Unzucht: "Und wir fanden einen Mann in Boston"
7 Die sieben Todsünden: VI. Habsucht: "Wie hier in der Zeitung steht, ist Anna"
8 Die sieben Todsünden: VII. Neid: "Und die letzte Stadt der Reise war San Francisco"
9 Die sieben Todsünden: Epilog: "Darauf kehrten wir zurück nach Louisiana"
10 Lady in the Dark: My Ship
11 Lady in the Dark: One Life to Live
12 Buddy on the Nightshift
13 Nannas Lied
14 Happy End: Surabaya Johnny
15 Happy End: Das Lied von der harten Nuss
16 Je ne t'aime pas
17 Schickelgruber
18 Der Abschiedsbrief
19 One Touch of Venus: Foolish Heart
20 One Touch of Venus: I'm a Stranger Here Myself




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