Steadfast Stranger

words and music by Howard Ashby Kranz

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1. Who are you, clear-eyed woman, now lying by my side,

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Who came to be so much of me from a world so far from mine?

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And I deeply love your mystery, and I tremble that you’re here

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And oh, how can we be so far? How can we be so near?

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2. So now, my steadfast stranger, what do we have to say?

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“Nobody ever really knows another person anyway.”

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The words it’ll take to see us clear may take a life to tell.

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How could we ever be so blind? how could we see so well?

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3. Now we have shared this simple thing that no one can comprehend,

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And, knotted at each others’ core, where the mazes all begin,

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You touch me with a single thought that cuts through all the fear.

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And o, how can we be so far? How can we be so near?

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