Stranger Than The Stranger on The Shore

<br>(difford/tilbrook)<br><br><br><br>Acid casualties and angry young men<br><br>The litmus test of a guitar and pen<br><br>Revolve around date sheets lost lonely rooms<br><br>And this is my home and I will leave soon<br><br>For a house with a tower<br><br>Where theres visiting hours<br><br>And the day leaves its taste on a spoon<br><br>The black eye of the camera bruised by my blush<br><br>Leaves another chin and another hair cut<br><br>The image in focus the shot aims to kill<br><br>And Im cropped at the waist as I run through the mill<br><br>So Im lost for an encore<br><br>The kodachrome wants more<br><br>Now Im snapped with my head in the still<br><br><br><br>The contracts been signed with a stroke of my blood<br><br>Im drowned by the name that sinks in the mud<br><br>Thrown from emotion to swim back to the shore<br><br>Where the sound of a drum beats time to applause<br><br>Now my lifes in danger<br><br>Of ending up stranger<br><br>Than the stranger who walked on the shore<br><br><br><br>Stranger than the stranger<br><br>Who walks by my bed<br><br>Shares in my life<br><br>Lives although dead<br><br>Stranger than the stranger I am sure<br><br>Stranger than the stranger on the shore