In the Can You Feel the Love Tonight lyrics, Timon and Pumba mourn for their diminishing friendship with Simba with off-screen vocals singing about the new romance in the air. Simba and Nala walk and playfully wrestle through the jungle and begin to fall in love. The song won the Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1994.
Can You Feel the Love Tonight Lyrics
I can see what’s happening (What?)
And they don’t have a clue
(Who?)
They’ll fall in love and here’s the bottom line – our trio’s down to two. (Oh.)
The sweet caress of twilight
(In a sarcastic mock-French accent)
The sweet caress of twilight
There’s magic everywhere
And with all this romantic atmosphere
(Back to normal, but still sarcastic)
There’s magic everywhere
And with all this romantic atmosphere
Disaster’s in the air
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
With all its living things
[SIMBA]
So many things to tell her
But how to make her see
The truth about my past? Impossible!
She’d turn away from me
But how to make her see
The truth about my past? Impossible!
She’d turn away from me
[NALA]
He’s holding back, he’s hiding
But what, I can’t decide
Why won’t he be the king I know he is
The king I see inside?
He’s holding back, he’s hiding
But what, I can’t decide
Why won’t he be the king I know he is
The king I see inside?
[Chorus]
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
Can you feel the love tonight?
You needn’t look too far
Stealing through the night’s uncertainties
Love is where they are
[TIMON]
And if he falls in love tonightIt can be assumed
[PUMBAA]
His carefree days with us are history
[TIMON & PUMBAA]
In short: Our pal is doomed
And if he falls in love tonight
It can be assumed
[PUMBAA]
His carefree days with us are history
[TIMON & PUMBAA]
In short: Our pal is doomed
Can You Feel The Love Tonight Trivia
- “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” won the 1994 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song.
- This is one of the movie’s best-known songs.
- The song was nominated for AFI’s “100 Years…100 Songs” as one of 15 from Disney and one of 17 from an animated movie to be nominated.
- This song was the first song Elton John wrote for the film.
- It was only through the insistence of Elton John that the song was included in the movie.
- The song originally was storyboarded to be sung by Timon and Pumbaa in a comical fashion but was changed at the insistence of Elton John to be the film’s “Prince and Princess” moment. John declared that “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” was meant to follow “Disney’s tradition of great love songs”, and that it could “express the lions’ feelings for each other far better than dialogue could”.
- The final version also included Zulu vocals that, while mostly muted in the on-screen version, were much more prominently featured in the audio-only releases.
- According to Mouse Under Glass, Tim Rice wrote fifteen different drafts for the song before finally settling on the version included in the film.
- Elton John sang his version of the song at the 1994 Academy Awards.
- A 2020 survey by OnBuy found that couples that chose “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” as the song for the first dance at their wedding were more likely to stay together, with 77% of respondents who chose the song remaining in their marriage.
About Can You Feel The Love Tonight
In “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”, Simba and Nala walk and playfully wrestle through the jungle and begin falling in love. While Timon and Pumbaa lament their waning friendship with Simba. The song won the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Song in 1994.
Written by Tim Rice and Elton John, the song was performed in the film by Kristle Edwards (also known as Kristle Murden), Joseph Williams, Sally Dworsky, Nathan Lane, and Ernie Sabella, while another version was used in the film’s closing credits was performed by Elton John.
About one and a half months before the film’s June 1994 release, Elton John’s recording was released as a commercial single. It was an immediate radio success and entered the Billboard Hot 100 shortly thereafter. The accompanying music video of Elton John’s recording contains montages of John performing the song and scenes from the film.
In 2003, a remixed version of the song was included in the Special Edition soundtrack of The Lion King, again sung by Elton John.
Can You Feel The Love Tonight Facts
| Movie: | The Lion King |
| Composer(s): | Elton John |
| Lyricist(s): | Tim Rice |
| Producer(s): | Chris Thomas |
| Performed by: | Kristle Edwards, Joseph Williams, Sally Dworsky, Nathan Lane, and Ernie Sabella |
| Label: | Walt Disney Records – Mercury |
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