Stranger Still [The Margin]

By Peter Hammill

On The Margin (Live)

Released on February 1985

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[Verse 1]

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


[Refrain]

Oh nothing could be less strange in entropy

No change, no change, no change


[Verse 2]

No danger in a normal life

You better steady down the adrenalin pump

Excess refraction in the mirror

Only leads to the quantum jump....

But that leaves me in limbo;

Oh how strange, what a strangеr I become


[Refrain]

No, no, nothing could be lеss strange in entropy

No change, no change, no change


[Bridge]

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


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 3]

Keep on shuffling the menu

And the order never comes on time

Oh no, there's only diffraction patterns

No reading between the lines;

Only the rate of emission

And reason allows no rime


[Refrain]

Oh nothing could be less strange in entropy

No change, no change, no change

No, nothing could be less strange in entropy

No change, no change, no change

No, nothing could be less strange in entropy...


[Instrumental Break]


[Outro]

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man

A stranger, a worldly man