Stranger
Estranged Journeys: Seeking Roots and Belonging
Lyrics
Planes and trains took you away
Travel by planes and trains separated you from this place
Were never ending
Seemed continuous or ongoing
Chasing with no consequence
Pursuing without facing repercussions
Your new obsession
Your latest fixation
You always went alone
You frequently embarked on these journeys alone
You never trusted anyone
Unwilling to place trust in others
How far will you go to forget where you're from
How much distance are you willing to cover to erase your origins
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
A sense of unfamiliarity or disconnect was always present with you
And I know the farther you go I'll need you closer
As you move away, I'll find the need for your proximity
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
A persistent feeling of being estranged from someone close
From a tale of a life that I once called my own
A narrative of a life that was once mine
With the fear that you'd escape
Fearful that you'd evade my grasp
My contradiction
Conflicting traits or actions
Could this be a lesson learned or all for nothing
Questioning whether experiences were valuable or futile
Oh will I ever feel what I felt with anyone
Will I ever recapture the emotions I once shared with someone
How far must I go to forget what I've done
How much must I distance myself to forget my past actions
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
Consistently feeling a sense of unfamiliarity or disconnect
And I know the farther you go I'll need you closer
Realizing the necessity for closeness as you move further away
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
Continued sense of being estranged from a once familiar life
From a tale of a life that I once called my own
Reflecting on a life story that was once part of my own
And you wonder how you'd ever fathomed how you would be content
Contemplating how you previously envisioned contentment
Would the places that you traveled to someday be filled with friends
Will the places you visited eventually be filled with companions
That you threw away back home and said you'd find them all again
Abandoned friendships in pursuit of rediscovery, with hopes of reuniting
Would I just be just like them
Will I end up being just another replacement like them
A replacement in the end
Being substituted or supplanted in the end
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
Consistent feeling of unfamiliarity or disconnect with someone close
And I know the farther you go I'll need you closer
As you move away, my need for your closeness intensifies
Oh god I always felt like you were such a stranger
Reiterating a persistent sense of estrangement from a familiar life
From a tale of a life that I once called my own
Recollection of a life story that was once mine
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