Stranger

Hello there, beautiful boy,
don't you know you have such a familiar face?
I swear I've seen you around somewhere,
I swear we've met before in another place.

How different you seem than I remember,
changing just to please them, again?
When will you find someone to be yourself around,
when will you learn changing won't be worth it in the end?

Timid and innocent, shy and afraid,
that's how I remember you.
And now? Your innocence is gone, a wall has been built;
gone is that beautiful boy I once knew.

There's this cold defiant air about you,
this dominance that was never there before.
I thought you liked being controlled, not giving the demands?
Maybe you just change your mind with each new open door.

You give, and you give, to these ghosts of your past,
and all I do is watch them continue to take.
Your heart on your sleeve, a blade in your hand,
it's all too much just to watch you break.

Hello there, beautiful boy,
don't you know you have such a familiar face?
I swear I've seen you around somewhere,
I swear we've met before in another place.

Or maybe I'm just getting ahead of myself.
Still, I don't think these thoughts are so askew.
Timid and innocent, shy and afraid,
that's how I remember you.

Hello there, beautiful boy,
don't you know you have such a familiar face?
But it's only familiar looking at first
because you're just a stranger in this place.