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Trying to Be a Stranger

from Winters Like These by Migrant Birds

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Forgive me, but I’m trying to be a stranger
Forgive me, but the distance masks the anger in my way

Well I tried to find a little spine
To hold the line long enough
To shake you

But it’s a surèd sign with the pass of time
I draw myself up to the line and scream:
“I never told you I loved you.
Should’ve told you I loved you.”

Then maybe, I wouldn’t have to be a stranger
The rest of my days

Oh defend me, ‘cause proximity’s a danger
But within me, still I know I’d never change her, anyway

Yeah it’s not her fault my heart she halts
A drunken waltz that I can’t stop dancing

But when I leave the haze the walls are raised
A labyrinth of wasted days
And oh, there’s no way forward
No path that leads forward

You may hate me, but I’ve got to be a stranger

The rest of my days
And it’s long since you turned me away
Yes, I heard clear the words that you spoke,
But each time that you call it just gives me a shadow of hope

They consume me, all the dirges that I sang her,
But it wounds me to discourage or defang her day by day

And the memory and subtlety
Of self-inflicted atrophy are blinding

So I cut the hook and closed the book,
Refused to take the time it took to burn
But I couldn’t shake you,
Couldn’t ever quite shake you

May sound crazy, but I’ve got to be a stranger
You may hate me, but I’ve got to be a stranger
Still someday maybe,
I won’t have to be a stranger
The rest of my days

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from Winters Like These, released April 23, 2021
Lyrics by Spencer Ayscue
Music by Migrant Birds
Engineered by Sam Amos and Migrant Birds
Mixed and mastered by Geoff Weber
Produced by Geoff Weber and Migrant Birds
Pedal Steel performed by Donald Monroe
Drums performed by Gabe Jones

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Migrant Birds Winston Salem, North Carolina

Migrant Birds is an indie folk band from Winston-Salem, NC. Their debut album My Honest Face was released on September 29.

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