Beauty And The Beast
"Beauty and the Beast" is an Academy Award winning song and the leading single from the Academy Award Best Picture nominated animated film Beauty and the Beast film and the first hit single from Céline Dion's eponymous album. It was performed in the movie by Angela Lansbury and sung over the movie's closing credits by Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson. The Dion-Bryson single was released on December 30, 1991 in the United States and the next year in the rest of the world.
The song is a ballad about the love developing between Belle and the Beast. It was written by composer Alan Menken and late lyricist Howard Ashman. It was one of Ashman's last works before he died of AIDS in 1991.
Single by Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson
Tale as old as time. True as it can be
Barely even friends than somebody bends unexpectedly
Just a little change. Small, to say the least
Both a little scared, neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
Ever just the same. Ever a surprise
Ever as before. Ever just as sure as the sun will arise
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast.