Familiar Strangers by Behan the Scene Lyrics
[Verse 1: Behan the Scene]
We seemed like strangers then
But we gon' be strangers now (It be like that)
Never took a glance, won't look for you in the crowd
Used to be family, ain't that sad?
And frankly, as time passed, we became spacious, and at last
You got your wish that you asked for (You happy?)
Should've talked, should've shown more
Could've cropped you out my life (I'm hip)
Had no option but keep goin'
Ain't my day, not my night (That's it!)
Didn't stop, should've listened
I am done and am done for
Partial pieces are missing
No more soul left to pour
I'm feeling like a statue
I wanna talk and you know it
I swear you can see me
Collected a lot of dust, until I blew it
Pass each other in the same room
I see that you care less
So why do I care how you're feeling?
Trusted you
You're the reason now I choose few
We have yet to cross paths
But I won't wait at the crossroads
We're fading out, you're nameless now
It's best we go our separate routes!
[Chorus: Malia Carter]
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
[Post-Chorus: Malia Carter]
Pages to chapters yet created
Unfamiliar faces
We nothing and we nothing
'Cause we're nothing but strangers
Pages to chapters yet created
Unfamiliar faces
'Cause we're nothing but strangers
[Verse 2: Behan the Scene]
We're close for strangers on rare-occasions
Let's get this straight
Partake in this phase 'cause
What does it make of us? (Of us)
Knew this day would come
You could say we're a derailing train, wreck, another concept scrapped
In a landfill and well
You wouldn't kill for me—it's killin' me
So, I couldn't feel for you—feelin' me?
'Cause in my book that's a double whammy (Whammy)
I've don' searched every nook and cranny (Cranny), looked for plot-holes, your trail went cold, yet I stay ten toes down
Not one tale told
I'm here and you're there at parts that aren't known
Marco Polo (Polo)
My charade made me the phantom of the opera
But you aren't my inamorata (Ayy)
Tried to beckon a beacon of hope you've kindled once before
Ain't no tamperin' with evidence
I've ignited a candlewick that I can't get the hang of
The only way I can play it safe is to innovate ('Vate)
We're brought here by fate
Each across the room
Wayfarers sidestepping, parallel opposites caught in wanderlust
This is common sense: these are stranger things
Tip my hat to you 'cause we both agree (Yeah)
[Bridge: Behan the Scene, Malia Carter & Both]
We've cleared the smoke (Smoke)
Let the dust settle (Settle)
We've defied laws (Laws)
Erasing all that defined us
We're not in touch (Touch)
A fading gust, I know that much that
(I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I)
I'm not gravitatin' to a stranger
But we know each other
We've cleared the smoke (Smoke)
Let the dust settle (Settle)
We've defied laws (Laws)
Erasing all that defined us
We're not in touch (Touch)
A fading gust, I know that much that
(I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I)
I'm not gravitatin' to a stranger
But we know each other
[Chorus: Malia Carter & Behan the Scene]
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It's like we know each other, yet we're nothing but strangers
We seemed like strangers then
But we gon' be strangers now (It be like that)
Never took a glance, won't look for you in the crowd
Used to be family, ain't that sad?
And frankly, as time passed, we became spacious, and at last
You got your wish that you asked for (You happy?)
Should've talked, should've shown more
Could've cropped you out my life (I'm hip)
Had no option but keep goin'
Ain't my day, not my night (That's it!)
Didn't stop, should've listened
I am done and am done for
Partial pieces are missing
No more soul left to pour
I'm feeling like a statue
I wanna talk and you know it
I swear you can see me
Collected a lot of dust, until I blew it
Pass each other in the same room
I see that you care less
So why do I care how you're feeling?
Trusted you
You're the reason now I choose few
We have yet to cross paths
But I won't wait at the crossroads
We're fading out, you're nameless now
It's best we go our separate routes!
[Chorus: Malia Carter]
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
[Post-Chorus: Malia Carter]
Pages to chapters yet created
Unfamiliar faces
We nothing and we nothing
'Cause we're nothing but strangers
Pages to chapters yet created
Unfamiliar faces
'Cause we're nothing but strangers
[Verse 2: Behan the Scene]
We're close for strangers on rare-occasions
Let's get this straight
Partake in this phase 'cause
What does it make of us? (Of us)
Knew this day would come
You could say we're a derailing train, wreck, another concept scrapped
In a landfill and well
You wouldn't kill for me—it's killin' me
So, I couldn't feel for you—feelin' me?
'Cause in my book that's a double whammy (Whammy)
I've don' searched every nook and cranny (Cranny), looked for plot-holes, your trail went cold, yet I stay ten toes down
Not one tale told
I'm here and you're there at parts that aren't known
Marco Polo (Polo)
My charade made me the phantom of the opera
But you aren't my inamorata (Ayy)
Tried to beckon a beacon of hope you've kindled once before
Ain't no tamperin' with evidence
I've ignited a candlewick that I can't get the hang of
The only way I can play it safe is to innovate ('Vate)
We're brought here by fate
Each across the room
Wayfarers sidestepping, parallel opposites caught in wanderlust
This is common sense: these are stranger things
Tip my hat to you 'cause we both agree (Yeah)
[Bridge: Behan the Scene, Malia Carter & Both]
We've cleared the smoke (Smoke)
Let the dust settle (Settle)
We've defied laws (Laws)
Erasing all that defined us
We're not in touch (Touch)
A fading gust, I know that much that
(I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I)
I'm not gravitatin' to a stranger
But we know each other
We've cleared the smoke (Smoke)
Let the dust settle (Settle)
We've defied laws (Laws)
Erasing all that defined us
We're not in touch (Touch)
A fading gust, I know that much that
(I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I-I, I-I-I)
I'm not gravitatin' to a stranger
But we know each other
[Chorus: Malia Carter & Behan the Scene]
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It must have been ages, 'cause you keep pullin' towards me
Wherever
We're nothing but strangers
It don't even take much to push me away from you
Whoever
You were to me or came from
It's like we know each other, yet we're nothing but strangers