Strangers Song Lyrics - Jessica Windsor

Day after day year after year
Suddenly we look up and we're here
Two strangers who used to love each other
Fight after fight tear after tear
Everything we had has disappeared
What's stranger than not knowing your lover

The time has come to say goodbye
My feet are frozen in the past
My head is plotting a way out
My heart hasn't caught up yet

I walk in a different direction
you follow me there anyway
I've tried but I can't learn the lesson
So maybe it's better to stay
I wait for an ounce of affection
It plays on repeat in my head
I'm done vying for your attention
I'll give it to myself instead

Try after try fail after fail
I gather my things and I forward the mail
It's over but I can't seem to say it
Night after night nail after nail
I take off the ring we put the house up for sale
Leftovers of a love that has faded

I showed you a yearbook of me as a kid
And You said what you'd give just to know me back then
Now the love songs I've written are all about you
And they'll die on the page with the ink bleeding through
We walked by the shore where I first learned to swim
Now I've filled an ocean with tears to the brim
I don't know where you end and where I begin
So I'll have to find who I am once again

I know it was not your intention
You meant every word that you said
I wanted your love and affection
You wanted your freedom instead
So I walk in a different direction
I hurts a little less every day
I thought I could not learn the lesson
But leaving taught me when to stay

High after high beer after beer
There's something about you that I just want near
What's stranger than not knowing each other
Night after night tear after tear
I cry you out but the memory's still here
A stranger who used to be my lover