Almost Unreal

"" is a pop rock song by Swedish pop duo released on May 10th, 1993 as the lead single of the official Super Mario Bros. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The song peaked at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 in North America, and reached 29 in Canada. It is featured in the Super Mario Bros. film as the first song played during the credits, and is the first song on the official soundtrack's album.

Reportedly, the song was written by intended to be used as the theme song to the  film, . The song was transferred to be used in the Super Mario Bros. film instead, and the lyrics were slightly reworked to remove most references to Hocus Pocus.

The song was later featured on the Japanese release of Roxette's 1994 album, ' and would later be featured on their 1995 greatest hits album, ', which features liner notes about the band's feelings towards the song. referred to the track as "not one of our most inspired moments", while Per Gessle stated, "I still like the song, in a way... but if you wanted to make a parody of Roxette, it would probably sound something like this."

Music videos
There are two versions of the music video, one with references to the film and one without. The former includes images from the film and several minor references, including one of the king's Mushrooms and several warnings of de-evolution. The video ends with the main character being De-Evolved into a lizard, which crawls out of his clothes. The scene of the lizard is cut out of the latter version of the video, along with the De-Evolution warning. In both videos the main character plays a video game, progressing through levels as the video continues.

Single release tracklisting

 * 1) Almost Unreal (4:00)
 * 2) The Heart Shaped Sea (4:09)

Lyrics
Babe Come in from the cold And put that coat to rest Step inside Take a deep breath And do what you do best Yeah Kick off them shoes And leave those city streets I do believe Love came our way And fate did arrange For us to meet

I love when you do The hocus-pocus to me The way that you touch You've got the power to heal You give me that look It's almost unreal It's almost unreal

Hey We can't stop the rain Let's find a place by the fire Sometimes I feel Strange as it seems You've been in my dreams All my life

I love when you do The hocus-pocus to me The way that you touch You've got the power to heal You give me that look It's almost unreal It's almost unreal

It's a crazy world out there Let's hope our prayers Are in good hands tonight

Oh, I love when you do The hocus-pocus to me The way that you touch You've got the power to heal You give me that look It's almost unreal It's almost unreal So unreal

Yeah come on and do The hocus-pocus to me The way that you touch You've got the power to heal You give me that look It's almost unreal It's almost unreal

Links

 * Music video on official Roxette Youtube channel
 * Side by side comparison of the two different music video versions