Lyrics
[Verse 1] Transit ring, another dock,
twenty thousand people walk,
everybody’s going home,
I keep going on my own.
Scanner beeps a little red,
clerk won’t even lift her head.
[Pre-Chorus] Pack my life into a bag,
no address and not a flag,
find another red-dwarf sun
it’s the same as every one.
[Chorus] Stranger under every sky,
(every sky)
passing through and passing by,
(passing by)
no one ever asks me “stay,”
(nowhere to stay)
so I turn and drift away.
(drift away)
[Verse 2] Council says my file’s not clear,
come back in another year.
“Where you from?” I wouldn’t know,
born in transit, long ago.
I don’t argue, I don’t shout,
pick my bag up, walk on out.
[Pre-Chorus] Pack my life into a bag,
no address and not a flag,
find another red-dwarf sun
it’s the same as every one.
[Chorus] Stranger under every sky,
(every sky)
passing through and passing by,
(passing by)
no one ever asks me “stay,”
(nowhere to stay)
so I turn and drift away.
(drift away)
[Bridge] But the dark between the stars
has no gates and has no guards,
I was born out there, between,
where no border’s ever been.
Every world’s a tiny dot,
and the dark is what I’ve got
I’m a citizen of nowhere,
nowhere’s most of what there is.
[Chorus] Stranger under every sky,
(every sky)
passing through and passing by,
(passing by)
no one ever asks me “stay,”
(nowhere to stay)
so I turn and drift away.
(drift away)
[Outro] Engines off and lights down low,
nowhere left I have to go,
floating where the stars are thin,
first place ever let me in.
(Nowhere’s home)
(I find my peace)