Stranger (demo) Lyrics - Phillips Anthony

[From the CD of Private Parts & Pieces] 

Now that you don't know me 

Is it gone, forever past? 

Now my rock has crumbled 

In the stormy winter blast 

Now the world is darkening 

As I watch the farewell train 

Though once she spoke within me 

Strange, may never see you again... 

Now the wind is asking 

How a rock so firm can fall 

Then the breeze, hear murmurs 

She rose not, so saved his call 

Now the leaves are rustling 

Do I hear them speak her name? 

That waits round every corner 

Strange, may never see you again... 

Little girl, lilty lilac 

Autumn queen by this quiet brook 

Once she lay breathing softly 

Now I watch the ashes burn 

A stranger who may not return 

Rose with the dawn, say you'll long at morning time 

Take this shining moment 

Treasure it through joy and sorrow 

When you hold, untie and unroll it 

Open it, a voice will sigh, a memory that went drifting by 

Upon the tide that swept you from my side 

Now the bells are calling 

I must tread the homeward track 

Leave all whispering ripples 

For the next part I must die 

Who I gave the whole world 

She remembers not my name 

That star beneath the bright lights 

Strange, may never see you again... 

Strange, may never see you again... 

Again...