You're a Stranger (to me now)

You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now

I am closer to the fat man on the bus
Pulling a trolley full of stuff behind him
You're a stranger to me now

You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now

I am closer to the kid with an undercut
Who never smiles but always waits until I board the bus as though I'm old

But darling when we met you were a different kind of strange
The strangest one I'd ever set my eyes or hands to, you were crazy
We captured every roaming shark in our own rotten net
And wore their teeth around our necks
You're a stranger to me now

You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now
You're a stranger to me now

I am closer to the customers who stare at me
And ask me so intently of the latest greatest fiction to be read

But darling when we met outside the gallery I saw you
In the front seat of the wagon and the streetlamp sent your eyes black
Like a hungry foreign dragon and I knew right then
That you would pull every tooth in my head
The words that you would never write
Those sullen days and drunken nights
The cutting tongue I took too far
The soundtrack to our seventh floor apartment tap turned to the right
The harder push to set alight
The food's gone cold
This house is on ice