If no one believes them?
Are they still gifts
If no one receives them?
Are they beautiful words
If no one reads them?
Did I kiss your mouth
Or had you stopped breathing?
Did I bind your wounds
Or were you not bleeding?
Were you already gone
Or was I just leaving?
Wasn't it really mine
Or was I still thieving?
I walk among them as a friend
And I leave as a perfect stranger How come I walk among them as a friend
And I always leave as a perfect stranger? Always a perfect stranger
I come among you as a friend
Yet I leave a perfect stranger
Always a perfect stranger
Or do I keep it hid?
Did I treat you kind?
I thought I did
Oh yes, I meant
To return your call
Until I fell sound asleep
Must have been all those
pills and alcohol
So tell the truth
Was it sad to see me fall?
You want some proof?
I can barely crawl
I come among them as a friend
And I leave as a perfect stranger
How come I walk among them as a friend
And I always leave as a perfect stranger
Always a perfect stranger
How can it be I come among you as a friend
Yet I leave a perfect stranger
Always a perfect stranger
I'll meet you there
In the secret room
At the top of the stairs
With the radio
And the broken chairs
We'll draw on the walls
And sigh and stare
We'll spend some time
We'll breathe some air
We'll make paper crosses
No one can bear
And we won't break
And we won't tear
And I'll get better
Someday I'll swear
I'll learn to hope
If you'll learn to care
So you go on ahead
I'll meet you there
I come among you as a friend And I leave as a perfect stranger
How come I walk them as a friend
And I always leave as a perfect stranger?
Always a perfect stranger
How can it be I come among you as a friend
Yet I leave a perfect stranger?
Always a perfect stranger
Always the perfect stranger
