PHIL COLLINS LYRICS
"Strangers Like Me"
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's so much to learn
It's all so close and yet so far
I see myself as people see me
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there
I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about thesestrangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me
Every gesture, every move that she makes
Makes me feel like never before
Why do I have
This growing need to be beside her
Ooo, these emotions I never knew
Of some other world far beyond this place
Beyond the trees, above the clouds
I see before me a new horizon
I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these 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 wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me
...I wanna know
Related to the movie, this song represents his feeling with his gorilla family. It seems that he has to make the choice to start something new, in a new world with a new person that look like him, where he wants to know her world and her life, that‘s Jane, but on the other hand, he found too much love with his family in the jungle that seems too difficult for him to leave them. It is as if the choice is hard and he doesn’t want to abandon his family.
If we analyzed the song from another context that is not about the movie… it shows us how much this girl means to him. He will do whatever it’s necessary to gain her love and be with her. He wants to share with her the world and his life; he is so devoted to her that everything she does for him he will do it for her.
