Stranger Beside Me

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

We shared the same old stories

Laughed at all the same old jokes

I could finish all your sentences

Or so I foolishly spoke

Years went by without a question

I thought I knew every page

Then one little crack appeared

And a stranger stepped onstage

Pre-Chorus

Funny how the missing pieces

Hide in plain sight

Funny how a single truth

Can rewrite a life

Chorus

You're the stranger beside me

Standing in a place you know

While I'm looking through the wreckage

Of a picture I once wrote

Now the mask is on the table

Now there's nothing left to prove

You're the stranger beside me

And I'm finally seeing you

Drop

Finally seeing you

Finally seeing you

Verse 2

You'd answer all the easy questions

I'd assume the rest was true

Building little explanations

Out of everything you'd do

I knew the sound of your laughter

The way you'd leave a room

But I never saw the distance

Between the facts and you

Pre-Chorus

Funny how the missing pieces

Hide in plain sight

Funny how a single truth

Can rewrite a life

Chorus

You're the stranger beside me

Standing in a place you know

While I'm looking through the wreckage

Of a picture I once wrote

Now the mask is on the table

Now there's nothing left to prove

You're the stranger beside me

And I'm finally seeing you

Drop

Finally seeing you

Finally seeing you

Bridge

We sat through all the same movies

Quoted every favorite scene

Still managed to miss the story somehow

A rather impressive feat

You were writing in the margins

I was following the plot

Funny how we shared the same years

And somehow shared them not

You didn't come from nowhere

You didn't suddenly change

You were there behind the curtain

I just never saw the stage

Final Chorus

You're the stranger beside me

But you've been here all along

And every certainty I carried

Suddenly feels wrong

Now the light's a little brighter

Now the view is breaking through

You're the stranger beside me

And I'm finally seeing you

You're the stranger beside me

The one behind the role

The person I'd been looking at

Without ever really knowing

Outro

Hello stranger beside me

After all these years

Turns out I've been talking to

Someone who was never here

After all the trust between us

Here's the truth I'm living through

I thought I knew you perfectly

And none of it was true