LyricMeaning

Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]
Elvis Costello

This never was one of the great romances
But I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes
But now they look in tired and bitter glances
At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my disguise

I get the feeling that I don't belong here
But there's no welcome in the window anyway
And I look down for a number on my key chain
'Cause it feels more like a hotel everyday

There's a stranger in the house, nobody's seen his face
But everybody says he's taken my place
There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see
But everybody says he looks like me

And now you say you've got no expectations
But I know you also miss those carefree days
And for all the angry words that passed between us
You still don't understand me when I say

There's a stranger in the house, nobody's seen his face
But everybody says he's taken my place
There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see
But everybody says he looks like me


  Purchase "Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]" Video   Play Spotify "Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]" Song   View Wikipedia "Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Elvis Costello Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Stranger in the House [BBC Version][*]"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Elvis Costello

  (The Angels Want to Wear My) Red Shoes   13 Steps Lead Down [Demo Version]   Accidents Will Happen [Live]   Adrian   Almost Ideal Eyes [*]   Anyone Who Had a Heart   Baby Plays Around [*][Demo Version]   Big Boys [*][Demo Version]   Big Tears [*]   Big Tears [Outtake]   Black & White World   Blame It on Cain [*]   Blame It on Cain [Honky Tonk Demo][*]   Blame It on Cain [Live]   Broken [Home Demo]   But Not for Me   Cradle   Crawling to the USA   Crawling to the USA [*]   Crying Time   Danger Zone   Dust [Live in Melbourne] [Live]   Dust 2 ...   Everyday I Write the Book [Alternate Version][*]   Everyday I Write the Book [Extended Mix]   Everyday I Write the Book [Instrumental]   Fire Suite 1   Fire Suite 3   From Head to Toe [*]   Georgie and Her Rival [Home Demo]   Girls Talk [Live]   Green Shirt [*][Demo Version]   Heathen Town [*]   Honey Hush [Live]   Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) [Un...   I Hear A Melody   I Stand Accused [Alternate Version]   I Still Have That Other Girl [Live]   Illyria [From Mistress Mine][Instrumental]   Imagination Is a Powerful Deceiver   Jump Up (Honky Tonk Demo)   Just About Glad [Bonaparte Rooms Version]   King of Confidence [*]   Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)   Let Them All Talk [Extended Remix]   Living in Paradise (Early Version)   Living in Paradise [Early Version][*]   Love Field [Live]   Love Went Mad [*][Demo Version]   Man Called Uncle   Man Out of Time [DJ Edit]   Matter of Time   Miracle Man [Live]   Motel Matches [Live]   Motel Matches [Live]   Mr. Feathers   My Brave Face   My Dark Life [*]   My Funny Valentine [*]   My Little Red Book   Mystery Dance [*]   Mystery Dance [Honky Tonk Demo][*]   Mystery Dance [Live]   Night Time [*]   Oh Well   Overtu   Pads, Paws and Claws [*][Demo Version]   Pads, Paws and Claws [Live]   Painted from Memory [Live]   Peace in Our Time [Demo Version]   Pills & Soap   Point of No Return [*]   Poison Moon [Honky Tonk Demo][*]   Pony St.   Possession [Live][*]   Pouring Water on a Drowning Man [Alternate Version...   Prelud   Psycho [Live]   Psycho [Live][#]   Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness [*]...   Radio Sweetheart [Live]   Radio, Radio [*]   Roadette Song [Live][*]   Rocking Horse Road [Demo Version]   Running Out of Angels [*][Demo Version]   She [From Notting Hill]   Ship of Fools   Shoes Without Heels [*]   Sleepless Nights [Live]   Smile   Smile   Song With Rose   Spooky Girlfriend [Live at Kfog]   Stalin Malone   Stalin Malone [Vocal Version][*][Version]   Stamping Ground   Step Inside Love   Sticks and Stones   Stranger in the House [Live]   Stranger in the House [Live][*]   Suffering Face [*]   Sulky Girl [Single Version][Edit]   The Dark End of the Street   The Element Within Her [*][Demo Version]   The Flirting Kind [*]   The Flirting Kind [*][Demo Version]   The Great Unknown [Demo Version]   The Greatest Thing [*][Demo Version]   The Only Flame in Town [*][Demo Version]   The Only Flame in Town [Alternate Version][Alterna...   The Only Flame in Town [Live]   The Other Side of Summer [Unplugged Version]   The Roadette Song   The Town Where Time Stood Still [*]   The Town Where Time Stood Still [Demo Version]   The Very Thought of You [DVD]   This House Is Empty Now [From Notting Hill]   This Town   Too Far Gone [Lost Session Version]   Turning the Town Red [Demo Version]   Uncomplicated [Live in Tokyo] [Live]   Walking on Thin Ice [*]   Watch Your Step [Live][*]   Wave a White Flag [Honky Tonk Demo][*]   What Do I Do Now? [*]   When I Was Cruel [No1 Studio Version]   When I Was Cruel No. 2 [Q Awards][Live][Multimedia...   Worthless Thing [Live]   You Belong to Me [Capital Radio Version][*]   You Bowed Down [*][Demo Version]   You Stole My Bell [#]   You Tripped at Every Step [Church Studios Version]   You Want Her Too   You Want Her Too [Live]

Related Songs

  Desire (BBC Live Lounge Version) - Years & Years  Jack Of Hearts - Bonnie Tyler  Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails  Career Opportunities (child Version) - The Clash  Stranger in the House - Machinist  Stranger in the House - Rachel Sweet  Stranger In The House - Rick Springfield  Stranger In The House - George Jones  Stranger in the House - Anne Soldaat  I've Been Wrong - Yardbirds  Stranger in My Own House - Foreigner  Jump Feat.Joel Madden & Benji Madden - N.E.R.D.  Jump Feat. Joel & Benji Madden - N.E.R.D.  Jump feat.Joel Madden & Benji Madden - N*E*R*D  Tell All Your Friends - Feeder  I'm Not Talking - Yardbirds  I'm Not Talking - The Yardbirds  Smokestack Lightning - Yardbirds  The Evidence - The Modems  STILL I'M SAD - Rainbow  Still I'm Sad - Rainbow  Stranger In My House (Album Version) - Tamia  Stranger in My House [Album Version] - Tamia  British Colonialism And The Bbc - Chumbawamba  Stranger In My House (HQ2 Club Mix Acappella)...  Stranger In My House - Ronnie Milsap  Stranger In My House - Ronnie Milsap  Don't Turn Me from Your Door - John Lee Hooker  Your Absence - Assassin  Power Button - Curren$y  I'm A Man - Yardbirds  I'm A Man - The Yardbirds  Stranger In My House - Tamia  Stranger In My House (Maurices' Club Radio Mix)...  Stranger In My House (Maurice's Club Anthem)...  Missing (House Version) - Che'Nelle  The House Of The Heart (Longer Version)...  The Stranger with the Face of a Man I Loved...  2050 Instrumental [Instrumental] - Version  2050 Instrumental [Instrumental] - Version  Stranger In The House (With Elvis Costello)...  My Baby [BBC Sessions][*] - The Yardbirds  My Baby - Yardbirds  Stranger - Circa Vitae  Collective Heartbeat - Howard Jones  The House You're Building - Audrey Assad  House You Live In - Gordon Lightfoot  The House You Live In - Gordon Lightfoot  A Stranger Love - Classixx   Stranger - Rick Springfield  My New House - Sonic Youth  iKnow - The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster  House Of Fallen Angels - Amie Comeaux  Interlude - Tamia  House You're Building - Audrey Assad  Burning down the House - Bonnie Raitt  From Great Britain To LA - Albert Hammond  From Great Britain To L.A. - Albert Hammond  Empty House - Kevin Hearn  Stranger Candy - Jim White  House of the Rising Sun - Marianne Faithfull  Mimi's House - Amy Grant  Mimi's House - Amy Grant  Mimi's House (Live) - Amy Grant  Giggle [Live] - Amy Grant  Giggle [Live] - Amy Grant  Somebody's Coming To My House (15 May 1913)...  Stranger Than the Stranger On the Shore - Squeeze  Shortwave - Fastball  Stranger Than Fiction - Joe Jackson  Stranger Than Fiction - Jackson Joe  Jump - N.E.R.D  Train Kept A-Rollin' - Yardbirds  Train Kept A Rollin' - The Yardbirds  Higher Ground (BBC Radio Freestyle) ...  Baby Stays (Live On BBC) - Sage Francis  Riverman (Live BBC Radio 2) - Benjamin Clementine  Love In The Asylum - Ringside  8th Floor - Regina Spektor  Litle Talks - Of Monsters And Men  J'ai dormi sous l'eau (BBC Session 1998) - Air  Burning Down The House (with The Cardigans)...  Victoria [BBC Version] - The Kinks  This Is Not Your Country - Morrissey  Sleep Paralysis - Youth Lagoon  Tomorrow Never Comes - Stranger  Our Strength - Stranger  Conditions - Stranger  The Power - Stranger  From The Roots - Stranger  Tonight - Stranger  Da Hood [Instrumental] - Stranger  Burning Down the House - Tom Jones  Mass Destruction [P*Nut and Sister Bliss Mix]...  Mass Destruction [Multimedia Track] - Faithless  Mass Destruction [Single Version] - Faithless  Burning Down the House (Talking Heads cover)...  Burning Down The House - Dave Matthews Band  The Motel Room - Frank Zappa  Secret Asian Man - Da Vinci’s Notebook  Mass Destruction (P*Nut & Sister Bliss Mix)...  Mass Destruction (Radio Edit) [Single Version]...  Mass Destruction (Single Version / P*Nut And Siste...  Mass Destruction - P*Nut and Sister Bliss Mix...  Stranger In My House (so So Def Remix) - Tamia  Weightless (Gub Version) - Pigface  Burning Down The House (featuring Tom Jones)...  Marco Polo ft. Bow Wow - Soulja Boy  Ladies Choice - Mandy Moore  Stranger - Angus & Julia Stone  Stranger In My Home Town - Foghat  Version - Incubus  Burning Down The House (feat.Tom Jones)...  In Your House (curiousity Version) - Cure, The  All For Something - Jordan Rakei  Won't You Come Home (And Talk To A Stranger)...  Cold Stone - Kill J  Rope Stretching Blues - Blind Blake  Bears - Sam Isaac  Dig It - Laibach  Stranger - Angus and Julia Stone  Amity - Carly Simon  It's 5! - Architecture In Helsinki  Profoundly in Love With Pandora - Ian Dury  Profoundly In Love With Pandora...  Divided - Delight  Sugarhighsoundtrack Version - Coyote Shivers  Steve's Rap - Smash Mouth  Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver  The Face - Anni Frid Lyngstad  The Face - Frida  Theres A Strange In My House - Tamia  Won't You Come Home - George Strait  Better Version - Shinedown  Ghost - Gavin James  Furious Sun (4:13) - Bobo In White Wooden Houses  Anew - Delight  Back To The Old House (BBC) - The Smiths  Burning Down The House - Walk The Moon  Electric Music And The Summer People (version 02)...  These Streets Are Alive - I The Mighty  Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous...  Jimmy Hill - Chumbawamba  Forget Me Not - Inspectah Deck  Holiday In Berlin - Frank Zappa  Crowded Stranger - Girlpool  Song of the Minerals - Shellac  84. Jimmy Hill - Chumbawamba  Love Bomb - Grinderman  Not For All The Rice In China (1933 Version)...  Burning Down The House - John Legend  Red House ( In Album Blues ) - Jimi Hendrix  Marco Polo - Bow Wow Feat. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em  Stranger in Moscow [Album Version]...  The Surgeon - Kervin  Elstree - Buggles  We Shall Sail - Gogol Bordello  Warrior ( Freestyle) - Wale  I Shall Sing - Toots & the Maytals  Record - Sodastream  Not King James Version - Steel Pulse  The New Version Of You - Reel Big Fish  Euro Zero Zero - Massive Attack  Burning Down the House [DVD] - Talking Heads  Burning Down the House [Alternate Version][*]...  Burning Down the House [Alternate 5.1 Mix][*][Mult...  Burning Down the House [Alternate Version]...  Burning Down the House [DVD][*] - Talking Heads  Burning Down the House [Live] - Talking Heads  House - Doveman  Pontchartrain - Jane Siberry  Beautiful Stranger - Deacon Blue  Beautiful Stranger - Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross  New Version of You - Reel Big Fish  Stranger [*][Demo Version]...  Burning Down The House - Talking Heads...  It'5 - Architecture In Helsinki  Dig it - Beatles, The  Neverending Nostalgia - Larra Skye  Burning Down The House - Used  Tether - Damien Jurado  Stranger in a Strange Land - Triumph  Jump - N.E.R.D. (The Neptunes)  Jump - N.e.r.d.  About a stranger - Chris Robinson Brotherhood  Swlabr [BBC Recording] [Version] - Cream  David Watts [Bbc Version] - The Kinks  Respectable Street (BBC Version) - XTC  Glorified G (live) - Pearl Jam  Media Control - Casualties  Pretty House For Sale - Charley Pride  Burning Down The House - The Used  Glorified G [Live] - Pearl Jam  Glorified G - Pearl Jam  Feel The Freedom (Feat. Kyoka) - Diamond Version   Science For A Better Life - Diamond Version   Connecting People - Diamond Version   The Blank Action (Feat. Leslie Winer)...  Turn On Tomorrow - Diamond Version   Access To Excellence - Diamond Version
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.