Strangers Lyrics

I was seventeen when I first left home

I couldn't stand to say goodbye, so I turned and left without a word

I was seventeen and I thought I was alone

I don't know what it was I wanted, I don't know what it was I heard

I learned a secret, and I swear I'll never tell

Though they tried to keep it from me, come heaven or come hell

From room to room I didn't recognize, the only solace I found

Was falling down Fourth Street every night

Now I can't trust a word of what they say

Who told you, I know I did

I kept a secret, that's not what I said

I bathed in perfume, thick and acrid how I like

The warm air couldn't wait to greet me

So tense you could pierce it with a knife

And she was grace, though she was strange

Huddled safe against the window, my discomfort was in vain

Now I can't trust a word of what they say

Who told you, I know I did

I kept a secret, that's not what I said

There are strangers in my heaven

There are strangers in my head

There are strangers in my heaven

I let them in