Beautiful Stranger

Lyrics

I saw you across a crowded bar
A silent storm, a borrowed scar
You wore a frown I thought I knew
A familiar shade of lonely blue
And I wondered why your pain called out my name…

We spoke in words of yesterday
Of futures feared, of games we play
You showed me walls I couldn't scale
A mirror of my own own jail
And every wound you showed me was my own design…

Oh, Beautiful Stranger, in your eyes I see
A reflection of the ghost inside of me
Every word you say, a silent, sacred clue
A window to the world I'm moving through
Beautiful Stranger… it was always only you.

The time we shared, a waking dream
A flowing, endless, timeless stream
There was no start, there is no end
Just a lesson I was meant to tend
A silent movie starring all my deepest, hidden fears…

Oh, Beautiful Stranger, in your eyes I see
A reflection of the ghost inside of me
Every word you say, a silent, sacred clue
A window to the world I'm moving through
Beautiful Stranger… it was always only you.

So I remember the harsh words spoken
A chain of mine, now finally broken
I thank the love you couldn't give
It taught my lonely heart to live
And see the source of everything was waiting deep inside…

All these faces, passing through
Every "I," and "me," and "you"
Just a dance of light and shade
A beautiful charade, being played
On the silent screen of what is truly, only One…

Oh, Beautiful Stranger, in your eyes I see
A reflection of the God inside of me
Every word you say, a silent, sacred clue
A window to the world I'm moving through
Beautiful Stranger… it was always only ME.

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