Strangers

The clouds were high in a summer sky, when we met finally, you and I To anyone looking in, it seemed a nothing kind of thing A faded curtain on a plastic rail, a black and white picture of the queen And an old lady and a child, on whom her frail arm leans We may be strangers But this heart beats because of yours Ooh, let us be strangers no more Our faces met across the years, I could spy the shine of tears Time and fate were cruel to you Your marble bones and your silver skin, brushed my cheeks and rosy beam I bore no likeness to you, except cornflower eyes of blue We may be strangers But this heart beats because of yours Ooh, let us be strangers no more For all your sorrow, we had this: a child's redemptive kiss If only I could give you more to atone for all you missed But for this hour we are as one And I'll hand your heartbeat on At six, I'm eighty years behind, and I do not know your failing mind But I saw that you saw me Maybe I'm the full stop of this sentence, this misnamed sin Never a mother, but now my kin We may be strangers But this heart beats because of yours Ooh, let us be strangers no more Let us be strangers no more