The Stranger

I started off as an observer
Perched on the Earth's curvature
Immersed in my first words heard
I fell through a hole in the ozone
Agonizing pain as I felt myself grow bones

Crashed to the asphalt
Buildings with black walls
Heard a gruff voice yell "last call"
And that's all and then blackness
Mind snuffed out like a matchstick
Woke up on my back on a mattress
Stomach backflipped to a trash basket, I heard a voice
"Are you feeling that sick?"
Pardon me?
She said her name was Harmony
Pupils so big I think she ate the whole pharmacy
Dammit I'm tired
Her eyes are like planets on fire
Her skin is like snow in October
She lit a cigarette and said "Damn I'm hungover"

She told me she was trying to get sober
She told me how no one really knows her
She told me how liquor's like the venom of the cobra
Only slower when it kills you
It's the pills you take that really make you think
And then she asked me if I want to have a drink
And before my eyes could blink
She walked over to the whisky bottle sorta by the sink
Listen, you hear those glasses go clink?
Toasting to the brink, man, we're toasting to the brink

Stranger in a strange land she tamed me with the same hand
She used to pop oxy, drop shots, she rocked Ray Bans
Drinking all day, damn, we're living in a blur
She mistook me for her god and asked if I'd forgiven her
I absolved her of her sins and so she showed me all the skin
And said she felt her soul call me from within
I stumbled back confused as the booze had me swimming in a pink fog
I think god is alcohol and women
Underneath the linen, she took my innocence
In a sense she was praying, in the other she repents
Hesitant to the way in which she eyed me with intent
It's intense what she's saying and I'm not sure what she meant
In my defense I'm not playing, truly terrified, because
I'm not sure just what I am or if I am alive
Then in five and the panic inside me would subside
I slowly drifted off with her lying by my side

She told me she was trying to get sober
She told me how no one really knows her
She told me how liquor's like the venom of the cobra
Only slower when it kills you
It's the pills you take that really make you think
And then she asked me if I want to have a drink
And before my eyes could blink
She walked over to the whisky bottle sorta by the sink
Listen, you hear those glasses go clink?
Toasting to the brink, man, we're toasting to the brink
Just a stranger in a strange land (Stranger in a strange land)
Toasting to the brink, man, we're toasting to the brink
Just a stranger in a strange land (Stranger in a strange land)
Toasting to the brink, man, we're toasting to the brink

She told me she was trying to get sober
She told me how no one really knows her
She told me how liquor's like the venom of the cobra
Only slower when it kills you