"Don't Be A Stranger" (lyrics)

"Don't Be A Stranger"

         

                                                   Lyrics: Peri Lyons  C.Juicyfruit Music/ASCAP 2012 all rights reserved

When we met- I don’t know why- you somehow felt like home.

You saw me to my soul, I saw.. Could I stand being known?

I couldn’t feel desire, back then, without some shallow "danger"...

But when I left you smiled again, and said : “Don’t be a stranger”

I wouldn’t kiss you, then, as well, ‘cause I desired another: 

Another shallow boy, who cared for no one but himself.

I truly thought love was a toy, and that there was no other

Way to love that was "exciting", so I put you on a shelf.

[chorus]

“Don’t be a stranger”-  

You meant more than I knew

I knew that I would never be a stranger- not to you- 

“Don’t be a stranger”

This was your gentle art

You taught me slowly not to be, a stranger to my heart

 [bridge:]

Just friends again for so long –then- I let myself be kissed

 And what I was so scared of,  I’m scared now I almost missed

My fear of boredom was the reason that I’d always flown:

Turns out the biggest bore of all,  was never being known

“Don’t be a stranger”

You meant more than I knew

You knew that I could never be a stranger- not to you- 

“Don’t be a stranger”

This was your gentle art:

You taught me slowly not to be

A stranger to my heart

We mostly are the opposite of how we play the world:

The ship that looks the fastest, never’s had its sails unfurled

The recipe that looks the best’s , the one’s that’s never made

The man who seems a player, is the man winds up played...

The love that travels deepest, is the love that never strayed;

The man who plays for keeps, is the one man who can’t be played;

The love who truly loves you, first can TRULY feel like danger;

The strangest and the strongest love is only when you’re not a stranger.

“Don’t be a stranger”

You meant more than I knew:

You knew that I would never be a stranger- not to you- 

“Don’t be a stranger”...

This was your gentle art:

You taught me slowly not to be

A stranger to my heart

(coda)

I’ll never be a stranger now, no matter where I roam

You showed me what freedom is 

when 

you gave 

this strange and stranger’s heart…

A home.

Peri Lyons  juicyfruit music/ASCAP 2012