Strangers

Every day at sunrise I got to empty my pockets

I've got four cups of coffee and these empty sockets

And the dreams I held so tender loom in the air around my bedroom

I think about the risin' sun and the day to come and I wonder

Where you went, where you went

Are you wide awake? Did you read all the letters that I sent?

Are you fast asleep?

Did you know I keep your memory buried away so deep?

Till all the walls fall, we'll just keep bein' strangers

As the world rearranges

Every blade, every seed, every ounce of green

And the sunrise is a welcome thing but I wish it was more welcoming

'Cause this life has such an awful sting and a price to pay for everything

And every day they say just get away

They say just get back up

They say just stand tough

You've got to keep it up

You've gotta learn to play rough

You've gotta run through a field on a sunlit day

Laugh it off, then sleep at night

But I don't care, I just don't care, 'cause if you're not here

There's no one to laugh at the jokes we share

Are you fast asleep?

Did you know I keep your memory buried away so deep?

Till all the walls fall, we'll just keep bein' strangers

As the world rearranges

Every blade, every seed, every ounce of green

And the sunrise is a welcome thing but I wish it was more welcoming

'Cause this life has such an awful sting and a price to pay for everything

And I saw you last night in the cell where I sleep

And your shyness was such a surprise

And you said, "I hold you in me like a secret I keep"

And the truth of that moment defies all that we know

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, where we go

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

So I think 'till all the walls fall, I'll just keep gettin' stranger

The world will rearrange her into something just as beautiful

I know that I won't know then but I see no reason to pretend

'Cause I love you now and I'll love you then

And the sun will shine on everything

And oh, whoa, oh

Till all the walls fall, we'll just keep bein' strangers

And the world will rearrange us into things we never planned to be

As the sun rises around us and continues to confound us

Its beauty will surround us and share its life with everything

And oh, whoa, whoa