Portrait Of A Stranger

[Verse 1]
She sketched you in a heartbeat
Charcoal on a paper frame
"Someone's waiting on your timeline"
Is all that she would say
Your eyes like they had seen me
For a thousand lives before
I walked out with your portrait
But I still don't know the door
[Chorus]
I got a picture of a stranger
Who feels like home inside my hands
Every line a little danger
Every shade a different plan
Tell me where you are tonight
City sky or quiet town
I got a picture of a stranger
But I can't track the real you down (oh no)
[Verse 2]
I tape you to my mirror
Talk to you before I sleep
Try on names like faded jackets
None of them fit what I need
I search faces on the subway
See your shadows in the glass
Every almost looks a little
Like the future that won't pass
[Chorus]
I got a picture of a stranger
Who feels like home inside my hands
Every line a little danger
Every shade a different plan
Tell me where you are tonight
Under bright or broken crown
I got a picture of a stranger
But I can't track the real you down (down, down)
[Bridge]
Is it east side
West side
Halfway ‘round the world? (yeah)
Are you laughing at a movie
Some other guy’s girl?
If I follow every instinct
Every crossroads
Every sign
Will I find you or lose pieces
Of the life I leave behind?
[Chorus]
I got a picture of a stranger
Who feels like home inside my hands
Every line a little danger
Every shade a different plan
If you're dreaming too tonight
Somehow feeling I’m around
I’m just a man with one small drawing
Trying to track the real you down
[Chorus]
I got a picture of a stranger
Falling deeper every day
If love can travel through a sketch line
Then maybe you can feel my way
Till the moment our eyes meet
And that paper hits the ground
I got a picture of a stranger
And I’m gonna track the real you down (oh yeah)

pop, 1980s blue‑eyed soul pop ballad with lush analog synth pads, DX-style electric piano, and big gated snare. Male vocals start intimate over minimal keys, building into a soaring, hooky chorus with stacked harmonies and a melodic bass line. Bridge swells with tom fills and a key change lift on the final chorus for full anthem energy., soul, ballad