Two Strangers - Matt Doyle, Morgan Karr, Jay A. Johnson

Somewhere in a quiet little nook of this city

Slippin' into somethin' that’s a little less like a disguise

You are not alone here

Open up your eyes

We cannot sleep

We’ll just hold our breath tonight

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Hope don’t matter it don’t matter

TIme will pulse on and tomorrow will come and go (go)

Or at least I’ve been told so

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Lost and lonely

Only nightcap strange strangers

Letting go of a dream (Letting go of a dream)

Waking up from a dream (Waking up from a dream)

Waking up from a half remembered mid-November dream

And somewhere out in Brooklyn

You’re alone and you’re drinkin'

Soakin' up the feeling

That you never felt nothin' at all

Whiskey makes you brood

But that’s your kind of mood

Ooh we cannot sleep

We’ll just hold our breath tonight

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Hope don’t matter it don’t matter

Time will pulse on

Tomorrow will come and go (will come and go)

We’ll be trudging through the snow

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Lost and lonely

Only nightcap strange stranger

Letting go of a dream (La da da de da da)

Waking up from a dream (La da da de da da)

La da da da da da da da

And then it’s over

Just another mistake

Done over

There’s no evidence here

No mark or picture frame

Just a name in a cellphone

Stuck in my head

Smelling a boy in my empty twin bed

Or maybe I’m just conjuring some romance I read

This was not

So magical

You didn’t impress me

Not at all

No

No

Not even a little bit

You were something I wanted to try

And we were happy

For a while

Just like in a dream one late night

Tumbling toward winter

In a perfect autumn luminescent light

You held me tight.

That was all I ever could have asked for

We’ll just hold our breath tonight

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Two strangers

We cannot sleep

We’ll just hold our breath tonight

(Two strangers) Two strangers

Hope don’t matter it don’t matter

(Time will pulse on)

It don’t matter

Ooh

Lost and lonely

Only nightcap strangers

Lost and lonely

Only nightcap strange strangers

La da da da da da

La da da da da da

La da da da da da da da da da da da da