Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Can You Feel the Love Tonight? is a classical pop song from the Disney's 1994 animated feature The Lion King. It was composed by Elton John with lyrics written by Tim Rice. The song won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The song was also nominated for AFI's 100 years...100 songs, as one of 15 songs from Disney and one of 17 songs from an animated movie to be nominated. The songs that eventually made the cut was: When You Wish Upon A Star (#7), Some Day My Prince Will Come (#19), Beauty and the Beast (#62) and Hakuna Matata (#99).

Plot
In the first movie, the song is performed by Kristle Edwards, Joseph Williams as Simba, Sally Dworsky as Nala, Nathan Lane as Timon, and Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa. As the song begins, Timon and Pumbaa realize that Nala and Simba being alone together would most likely lead to the two falling romantically in love. The two worry that this will bring an end to their carefree days with Simba. Timon's prediction comes true, and the two lions fall in love during a stroll though the jungle.

In The Lion King 1½, the romantic scene is interspersed with scenes showing Timon and Pumbaa trying to disrupt Simba and Nala's romantic night out while the refrain plays throughout their failure.

Elton John, the composer, also sings his cover version during the credits of the original film. This version was released as a single by Elton John and was also featured on the The Lion King soundtrack. A different cover version of the song, with Elton John's lyrics, appeared on the Sing-Along Songs video Colors of the Wind, in which it was set to clips of couples from previous animated Disney films in addition to Simba and Nala.

Movie version
Timon: I can see what's happening

Pumbaa: What?

Timon: And they don't have a clue

Pumbaa: Who?

Timon: They'll fall in love, and here's the bottom line

Our trio's down to two

Pumbaa: Oh Timon (with French accent): The sweet caress of twilight

There's magic in the air

And with all this romantic atmosphere

Disaster's in the air

Chorus: Can you feel the love tonight?

The peace the evening brings

The world, for once, in perfect harmony

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

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?

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 to far

Steeling through the night's uncertanties

Love is where they are

Timon: And if he falls in love tonight

It can be assumed Pumbaa: His carefree days with us are history Both: In short, our pal is doomed

Elton John's version
There's a calm surrender To the rush of day

When the heat of a rolling wind Can be turned away

An enchanted moment And it sees me through

It's enough for this restless warrior Just to be with you

And can you feel the love tonight?

It is where we are

It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer

That we got this far

And can you feel the love tonight?

How it's laid to rest

It's enough to make kings and vagabonds

Believe the very best

There's a time for everyone If they only learn

That the twisting kaleidoscope Moves us all in turn

There's a rhyme and reason To the wild outdoors

When the heart of this star-crossed voyager Beats in time with yours

And can you feel the love tonight?

It is where we are

It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer

That we got this far

And can you feel the love tonight?

How it's laid to rest

It's enough to make kings and vagabonds

Believe the very best

It's enough to make kings and vagabonds

Believe the very best

Trivia

 * The song originally was storyboarded to be sung by Timon and Pumbaa in a comical fashion, but was changed at the insistance of Elton John to be the film's "Prince and Princess" moment.