You're a Stranger (to me now)

You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now I am closer to the fat man on the bus Pulling a trolley full of stuff behind him You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now I am closer to the kid with an undercut Who never smiles but always waits until I board the bus as though I'm old But darling when we met you were a different kind of strange The strangest one I'd ever set my eyes or hands to, you were crazy We captured every roaming shark in our own rotten net And wore their teeth around our necks You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now You're a stranger to me now I am closer to the customers who stare at me And ask me so intently of the latest greatest fiction to be read But darling when we met outside the gallery I saw you In the front seat of the wagon and the streetlamp sent your eyes black Like a hungry foreign dragon and I knew right then That you would pull every tooth in my head The words that you would never write Those sullen days and drunken nights The cutting tongue I took too far The soundtrack to our seventh floor apartment tap turned to the right The harder push to set alight The food's gone cold This house is on ice