Strange Girl - Al Stewart

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family

You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity

Your mother’s taking pills all day, she’s looking to escape

Your uncle’s in the County Jail for statutory rape

Just another runner never made it to the tape

Your cousin gets his kicks setting everything on fire

Your little brother always lets the air out of my tyres

Your sister wants to prove that she’s an object of desire

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family

You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your fantasy

Your father’s a collector and his things are a delight

He likes cameras and binoculars and everything in sight

He collects them in a wagon in the middle of the night

Every holiday’s a nightmare and it’s giving me the chills

Everybody ends up fighting, I remember it still

The only thing that they agree on is it’s me they want to kill

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family

You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity

I think we ought to break up, I could really use the rest

Everything I like you say is something you detest

But every time I try to leave you say you love me best

I was looking for some mystery, I thought you’d be the girl

I really must admit you were like nothing in this world

I finally got the oyster but I never found the pearl

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family

You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family

You’re a strange girl, I think you’re headed for calamity

(Strange strange) girl

(Strange strange) girl

(Strange strange) most peculiar!

(Strange strange) girl