Released: November 4, 1996
Songwriter: Michael Jackson
Producer: Michael Jackson
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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?
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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?
[Outro]
Like a stranger in Moscow
Lord have mercy
Like a stranger in Moscow
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
[KGB interrogator - Russian to English Translation]
Why have you come from the West
Confess, to steal the great achievements of the people
The accomplishments of the worker
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
[Chorus]
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?
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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?
[Outro]
Like a stranger in Moscow
Lord have mercy
Like a stranger in Moscow
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
[KGB interrogator - Russian to English Translation]
Why have you come from the West
Confess, to steal the great achievements of the people
The accomplishments of the worker
King Of Pop (The Dutch Collection)
- Man in the Mirror
- You Are Not Alone (single Version)
- She’s Out Of My Life (single version)
- They Don’t Care About Us (LP Edit)
- Heal the World (7" Edit)
- You Rock My World (Radio Edit)
- Smooth Criminal (Radio Edit)
- Earth Song (Radio Edit)
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Single Version)
- Thriller (Single Version)
- Rock with You (Single Version)
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough (Single Version)
- Billie Jean (Single Version)
- Beat It (Single Version)
- Will You Be There (Radio Edit / Single Version)
- Can You Feel It (Single Edit)
- Who Is It (7' Edit)
- Blame It on the Boogie
- Got the Hots
- Bad
- Dirty Diana
- Human Nature
- The Girl Is Mine
- Black or White
- I’ll Be There
- Off the Wall
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- Liberian Girl
- Say Say Say
- Ben
- Remember the Time
- Give In to Me
- Blood on the Dance Floor
- Ghosts
- Stranger In Moscow (Single Version)
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
- Bad
- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine