Lyrics Stranger Still - Peter Hammill

Stranger Still

Stranger still in another town,
How normal to sit out the dance,
Eating the good meal by myself,
Toasting the empty glass;
And they’re already setting out
The next place,
Already forgetting about the last.
No, nothing could be less strange
In entropy
No change, no change, no change.
No danger in a normal life,
Better steady down the adrenalin pump.
Excess refraction in the mirror
Only leads to the quantum jump…
Oh, but it leaves me in limbo;
How strange, what a stranger I become.
No, no, nothing could be less strange
In entropy
No change, no change, no change.
No, I know how to behave
In the restaurant now,
I don’t tear at the meat with my hands;
If I’ve become a man of the world somehow
That’s not necessarily to say
I’m a worldly man.
Keep on shuffling the menu
And the order never comes on time.
No, there’s only diffraction patterns,
No reading between the lines;
Only the rate of emission,
And reason allows no rime.
Nothing could be less strange
In entropy
No change, no change, no change.
No, nothing could be less strange…
Entropy…
… a stranger, a worldly man