Lyrics
Verse 1
Somewhere in a crowded room I turn my head and stop
Looking for a shadow that my hands have never touched
I hear a quiet echo, like a half-forgotten prayer
Your heartbeat in my ribcage though my arms are in the air
Pre-Chorus
I don’t know your face, but I know your silence
I don’t know your hand, but I know your violence
The wars you fight when no one sees
Still your trembling reaches me
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Verse 2
There’s a white house in my memory, paint is peeling from the walls
A narrow path of scattered stones where afternoon light falls
A little stream beside the road, soft water running back
Birdsong floating through the trees along that winding track
Pre-Chorus
I don’t know your eyes, but I know their weather
Storm and quiet breaking all my measures
I have never held your face
But I know the shape of your empty space
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Bridge
In my sleep I walk that pathway, to the house of peeling white
Hear the river, hear the birdsong, feel your shadow in the light
Every lifetime we keep missing, crossing oceans made of time
But this aching in my chest says your heartbeat’s calling mine
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Outro
Somewhere by the house and pathway, by the little stream that shines
I will know you when I meet you
From the ache between the lines
Somewhere in a crowded room I turn my head and stop
Looking for a shadow that my hands have never touched
I hear a quiet echo, like a half-forgotten prayer
Your heartbeat in my ribcage though my arms are in the air
Pre-Chorus
I don’t know your face, but I know your silence
I don’t know your hand, but I know your violence
The wars you fight when no one sees
Still your trembling reaches me
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Verse 2
There’s a white house in my memory, paint is peeling from the walls
A narrow path of scattered stones where afternoon light falls
A little stream beside the road, soft water running back
Birdsong floating through the trees along that winding track
Pre-Chorus
I don’t know your eyes, but I know their weather
Storm and quiet breaking all my measures
I have never held your face
But I know the shape of your empty space
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Bridge
In my sleep I walk that pathway, to the house of peeling white
Hear the river, hear the birdsong, feel your shadow in the light
Every lifetime we keep missing, crossing oceans made of time
But this aching in my chest says your heartbeat’s calling mine
Chorus
You’re the stranger I remember
From a place I’ve never known
Like a photograph that lingers
When the colors all have gone
I can feel your every shiver
In the marrow of my bones
We are written for each other
Living separately alone
Strangers I remember
More than anyone I’ve known
Outro
Somewhere by the house and pathway, by the little stream that shines
I will know you when I meet you
From the ache between the lines