Stranger Passing Through

Daddy come down from Baltimore
It's his Saturday
He'll pick 'em up take 'em to the go-kart track
Bring 'em back by dark
Sleepin' deep in the back seat
Their sweet dreams he once knew
He'll drive by their old house on Willow
Like a stranger passing through

Mary's out front in the twilight
Quart of Bo and a pack of Kools
Thinkin' 'bout what might might have been
She hears him comin' now
She knows that old car's sound by heart
Knows him, too
She'd ask him in, but he'd act like
A stranger passing through

Just can't seem to tell herself
That's the way it goes
When she remembers makin' love in that 88
Every time the O's are on the radio
It's a home game under the lights
And there's a long drive to deep right
It's going, going, gone

So daddy come tuck 'em all into bed
Then just slip away
Carryin' those promises
Back up 95
Just before the darkness falls
The sky's so deep a blue
Then it disappears into the night
Like a stranger passing through

Ooo
Ooo
Ooo