Stranger - Tyler Cole

How you gettin' home?

You’re all alone

It’s a big world out there

Wow, you’re doing well, for yourself

I know you don’t see my stare

And all I really wanted from you was a chance to get up

Just so I could try and try and try again

I love it when you take it in the ways

I’m not expecting, not addressing after

'cause what’s the risk, anymore?

Isn’t it strange?

Isn’t it strange?

Isn’t it strange?

Oh, all the days

How you gettin' by?

A nine-to-five

Is one-third of your life you’re losing

I know, I know it’s hard, it’s all a game

But that’s just the life we’re choosin', it’s proven

To be a little innovative agent waiting, patiently insane

But I can feel the day I’m gone

Don’t wanna be so complicated, so cliche

And so impartial to the laws

And how they say I’m wrong, so in love

Isn’t it strange?

Isn’t it strange?

Isn’t it strange?

Maybe it’s me

They wanna see me go away

I just wanna fly away

We’re gonna work it out

They convinced that I’m a stranger, they

Wanna see me go and die today

We’re gonna work it out

They wanna cast me out

Shoot me down

Watch me bleed

They wanna patch it up, apologize —

That’s not how it works

I told you you’re not a stranger

I told you’ve we’ve met before

I told you we’d meet again

I told you I was unhappy

And I told you I wasn’t going to change

I told you how hard everything had gotten

And how close I’d gotten to the edge

I told you I didn’t know you anymore, you didn’t love me

And that’s okay;

the constellations didn’t want that

There’s no point in hating someone or something if you can’t change the end

result

You’re sitting there alone writing, bingeing, fighting yourself,

losing sight of what’s real

And all it takes is one person, one person that really cares

Someone you’ve been watching a long time, admiring

Even back in the civic days when you could talk to a million people,

and still feel alone.

All it takes is this one person to say the right thing,

to stop feeling the way you’d thought you’d be for the rest of your life

I told you —

I told you I wasn’t going to work

I wasn’t going to work

We can’t speak because

I’m supposed to be alone

I don’t belong like the others

I’m a stranger

She looked at me and she told me

I wasn’t a stranger

Just a friend I hadn’t met yet