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Hey stranger

 Would you come in through my door?

 If not now I leave it ajar

 And then maybe you could come back come back

 I'll be waiting here for you

 I'll be hoping here for you

 I'll be praying here that you'll believe it's true

 That in all these lonely years

 How would I have loved your company

 But I never could give in

 To this fragile side of me

 You see I've always been a man of great ambition

 But succes just turned his back and never came

 And now I find I became a man

 Of even greater solitude

 And I wish I spent more time

 Making friends with guys like you

 Oh stranger, how can I make you stay?

 For a little while a little while

 Oh stranger, please don't go away

 I'm living on

I'm singing on

just to let me

  sing one song for you

  Hey stranger

 This is my song, it is old & it is wrinkled

 I tried it for too long

 I tried it time after time

 To forget about myself

 And to hide it in a while

 But a while's been going on

 Since I can't remember when

 And got catched up by the life

 Of a lost and lonely man

I think i'm a-sung away a little faster

than I planned

  Hey stranger

 This is my life, I can't use it anymore

 For I share it with one but myself myself

 I can't fool you anymore

 Let me hide with you a while

 Let me try it a little while

 Let me try it a little while

 And then maybe you'll believe it's true

 That in all these years I spent

 With the glory of a fool

 Making diamonds out of tears

 On the highest bid to go

 That I've been searching for a friend

 To tell my troubles to

 But I could never understand

 How to get out of that cell that cell