Stranger Than You
Joe Jackson

At a bar on 43rd at quarter to two
Met my friend the Chinese Elvis and hoisted a few
He talks like Mickey Mouse
And sees with x-ray eyes
Lives in a cardboard house
I almost gave him the prize

Until you
Came along - thanks for opening my eyes
Things you do - right or wrong
It should come as no surprise
When you live in a town where there's always somebody
Stranger than you

At 83rd and Amsterdam there's an Indian Jew
Who pierced all his private parts with a permanent screw
He sleeps on a bed of nails
Which came from outer space
And in my taller tales
I gave him pride of place

Until you
Came along - thanks for opening my eyes
Things you do - right or wrong
It should come as no surprise
When you live in a town where there's always somebody stranger than you
Stranger than you

I'm not complaining even though I'm not sure what you are
I've got the strangest feeling (good) about this love bizarre

I could have stayed in bed
H iding from this freaky show
I'm happy that instead
I knew just where to go

When you came along - thanks for opening my eyes
Things you do - right or wrong
It should come as no surprise
When you live in a town where there's always somebody
Stranger than you

Are you a boy - are you a girl
Are you an oyster - are you a pearl
Are you a fish - are you a fowl?
Are you an angel - are you from hell


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Lyrics by Joe Jackson

  (Do The) Instant Mash   (It's a) Big World   1 - 2 - 3 Go   1-2-3 Go (This Town's A Fairground)   A Slow Song   A Place In The Rain   A Slow Song   Amateur Hour   Angel   Another World   Awkward Age   Baby Stick Around   Battleground   Be My Number Two   Beat Crazy   Big World   Biology   Blaze of Glory   Blue Flame   Breakin Us In Two   Breaking Us in Two   Bright Grey   Cancer   Cha Cha Loco   Chinatown   Chrome   Citizen Sane   Cosmopolitan   Crime Don't Pay   Dear Mom   Different for Girls   Dirty Martini   Discipline   Don't Ask Me   Don't Wanna Be Like That   Down to London   Drowning   Drunk Song   Eleanor Rigby   Enough Is Not Enough   Ever After   Evil Empire   Fairy Dust   Fifty Dollar Love Affair   Firday   Fit   Five Guys Named Moe   Flying   Fools in Love   For Your Love   Forty Years   Friday   Fugue 1 / More is More   Fugue 1 \/ More is More   Fugue 2 / Song of Daedalus   Geraldine and John   Get That Girl   Girl   Glamour & Pain   Glamour And Pain   Go For It   Goin' Downtown   Good Bad Boy   Got The Time   Happy Ending   Happy Loving Couples   Happyland   Heart of Ice   Hell Of A Town   Hit Single   Home Town   How Long Must I Wait For You   I'm the Man   In Every Dream Home (A Nightmare)   Invisible Man   Is She Really Going out with Him [Re-Recording]   Is She Really Going Out With Him?   Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby   It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)   It's All Too Much   It's Different For Girls   Jack, You're Dead   Jamie G.   Jenny Jenny   Jumpin' Jive   Jumpin' With Symphony Sid   Just Because...   Kinda Kute   King of the World   King Pleasure Time   King Pleasure Time [Album Version]   King Pleasure Time [John Morales Downtown Escape I...   King Pleasure Time [John Morales Uptown Express In...   Laundromat Monday   Left of Center [Album Version]   Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries   Little Bit Stupid   Look Sharp   Love At First Light   Love Got Lost   Lullaby   Mad at You   Man In The Street   Me & You   Me And You   Me and You (Against the World)   Memphis   Mood Indigo   Moonlight   My House   Nineteen Forever   Not Here, Not Now   Obvious Song   Ode to Joy   Oh Well   On Your Radio   One More Time   One to One   Only the Future   Out of Style   Passacaglia / A Bud & A Slice   Passacaglia / A Bud and a Slice   Precious Time   Pretty Boys   Pretty Girls   Rant and Rave   Real Men   Right   Right & Wrong   Right and Wrong   Rush Across the Road   San Francisco Fan   Sea of Secrets   Sentimental Thing   Shanghai Sky   Shape In A Drape   Solitude   Solo (So Low)   Someone Up There   Soul Kiss   Stay   Steppin Out [Album Version] [Version]   Steppin' Out   Still Alive   Stranger Than Fiction   Summer in the City   Sunday Papers   Survival   T.V. Age   Take It Like A Man   Tango Atlantico   Target   The Band Wore Blue Shirts (a true story)   The Best I Can Do   The Bridge   The Evil Eye   The Human Touch   The Jet Set   The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy   The Old Songs   The Other Me   The Uptown Train   The Verdict   Throw It Away   Thugz 'R' Us   Thugz R Us   Tomorow's World   Tomorrow's World   Tonight and Forever   Too Tough   Trying To Cry   Tuxedo Junction   Tuzla   Wasted Time   We Can't Live Together   We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya)   What's The Use of Getting Sober   What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna...   When You're Not Around   Why   Wild West   You Can't Get What You Want   You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What Yo...   You Got the Fever   You Run Your Mouth   You Run Your Mouth (And I'll Run My Business)   You're My Meat

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