A Stranger to Me Now

Sometimes I wonder where she went

Is she okay, is she spent?

I miss her voice, her endless laughter

Can she even smile after?

Sometimes I think about her soul

Did she find peace, did she feel whole?

Is she living the dream she drew

Or stuck inside the same old truth?

I searched the streets and faces near

But she’s not the one that once stood here

‘Cause when I try to trace her face

I don’t see the girl I used to embrace

The one I loved, the one I knew

Feels like a memory slipping through

She looks like me, but not somehow

She’s just a stranger to me now

I see the same eyes as mine

Same hair color, same crooked smile

The same old face I knew by heart

But we’ve grown galaxies apart

She walks and talks, but not the same

A quiet echo of her name

She’s here and yet she’s far away

Like time has taken her away

I try to reach, but she won’t turn

And all I feel is this slow burn

‘Cause when I try to trace her face

I don’t see the girl I used to embrace

The one I laughed with in the rain

Now looks at me and hides the pain

She looks like me, but not somehow

She’s just a stranger to me now

Maybe she’s out there, fighting through

Maybe she’s gone, or just brand new

But I still ache for who she was

Before the silence, before the loss

‘Cause when I try to trace her face

I can’t find the girl I used to chase

The one who danced without a care

Now only lingers in the air

She looks like me, but not somehow

She’s just a stranger to me now

She’s just a stranger to me now

And I still miss her, anyhow