Milli Vanilli

Released: November 14, 1988

Songwriter: Jens Gad Toby Gad

Producer: Frank Farian

(There's a boy in the tree who's watching you)
(Looking with big brown eyes at you)
(Boy in the tree and you can't run away)

I'm walking along in the USA
I'm thinking of how to be far away
Tryin' to find a game where I should play
And so I made up my mind, I should go by car
For goin' by foot, it was much too far
Lookin' around, I just didn't know what to say

Nothing seemed unreal
I soon realized
The boy in my tree

Boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away
There's a boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away

We go out in the world as a curious thing
I'm feelin' myself like a fairy tale king
I'm catched in a dream and I, I can't run away (Run)
I'm thinkin' about how to stop that dream
I wanna wake up through our hearts and beat
I'm catched in a dream and I, I can't run away

Nothing seemed unreal
I soon realize
The boy in my tree

Boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away
There's a boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away

Nothing seemed unreal
I soon realized
The boy in my tree

(Boy in a tree who's watching you)
(Looking with big brown eyes at you)
(Boy in the tree and you can't run away)

Boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away
There's a boy in a tree who's watching you
Looking with big brown eyes at you
A boy in a tree and you can't run away

A boy in the tree

Milli Vanilli was a German pop/R&B group that rose to fame in the late 1980s. After winning a Grammy for Best New Artist, it was revealed that the two “members” of the group, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, were frauds. They had not performed any of the music themselves, and had lip-synced all of their performances. Numerous lawsuits were filed after this revelation and their Grammy was revoked, marking the first time a Grammy had ever been rescinded from an artist.

Their debut album, Girl You Know It’s True, went 6x Platinum before being completely deleted from the catalog of Arista Records, making it one of the largest-selling albums ever to be taken out of print.

After the controversy, Milli Vanilli split into two different groups. Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan became Rob & Fab, and released a self-titled album that commercially flopped, selling only around 2,000 copies. The actual studio performers formed The Real Milli Vanilli (also known as Try ‘N’ B to avoid any name recognition), and released an album called The Moment of Truth.

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