Stranger (Trapped in the Middle)
Samsara - Nov. 23, 2001
Tell me stranger, what is there left for a fallen angel?
Without a glimmer of hope left for me to breathe in
Nor a drop of hatred to exhale
Why am I here?
I really have no existence
No side to fight for
No true Destiny
Only trapped in the middle of this raging war
Stranger, did you know
I am really no one
No form to take
Nothing to be
I'll stand here for eternity until I stop
This is the middle line
The marking place for losers
Winners on each side
Powerful their logic stands
Righteous in their path
I stand a leader of the unknown
Of the unmet
Not starlight or stardusk can guide the weary eye
We are the undecided
The few children of the both
We get to stand in the middle
Our own special place
Inside the valley Ares
Stranger, have you heard
The painful screams of middlemen
The mockeries of hate filled men
You stand outside
A stranger to my doorstep
Such a face
Rings quite a bell
Stranger, are you truly a stranger
You look from these parts
The valley was a home
The one you left in search of Fame
In search of Fortune
So tell me, dear stranger
Did you reach your highest content
Have you met the worlds end with grace to no doubt
Did you ever miss this ungrateful servant
Did you ever cry when I wasn't there
You stand as a stranger
Pausing at my doorstep
This once was your welcome home
What's made you forget it
Perhaps you are a stranger
You stand stark still
I sit upon the floor
Eyes curled to the heavens
Did I ever mean to you what you meant to me
I don't think that matters anymore
Nothing matters
Not hugs
Not kisses
Touches
Or gasps
You ran away
But from what I'll never know
Stranger?
You must be a stranger
You stand there
Unsure as hell
Am I dead or gone?
I care not which
For whatever stranger you've become
You made me into what you are:
Stranger
Samsara - Nov. 23, 2001
Tell me stranger, what is there left for a fallen angel?
Without a glimmer of hope left for me to breathe in
Nor a drop of hatred to exhale
Why am I here?
I really have no existence
No side to fight for
No true Destiny
Only trapped in the middle of this raging war
Stranger, did you know
I am really no one
No form to take
Nothing to be
I'll stand here for eternity until I stop
This is the middle line
The marking place for losers
Winners on each side
Powerful their logic stands
Righteous in their path
I stand a leader of the unknown
Of the unmet
Not starlight or stardusk can guide the weary eye
We are the undecided
The few children of the both
We get to stand in the middle
Our own special place
Inside the valley Ares
Stranger, have you heard
The painful screams of middlemen
The mockeries of hate filled men
You stand outside
A stranger to my doorstep
Such a face
Rings quite a bell
Stranger, are you truly a stranger
You look from these parts
The valley was a home
The one you left in search of Fame
In search of Fortune
So tell me, dear stranger
Did you reach your highest content
Have you met the worlds end with grace to no doubt
Did you ever miss this ungrateful servant
Did you ever cry when I wasn't there
You stand as a stranger
Pausing at my doorstep
This once was your welcome home
What's made you forget it
Perhaps you are a stranger
You stand stark still
I sit upon the floor
Eyes curled to the heavens
Did I ever mean to you what you meant to me
I don't think that matters anymore
Nothing matters
Not hugs
Not kisses
Touches
Or gasps
You ran away
But from what I'll never know
Stranger?
You must be a stranger
You stand there
Unsure as hell
Am I dead or gone?
I care not which
For whatever stranger you've become
You made me into what you are:
Stranger
