Stranger Still - Peter Hammill

Stranger still in another town,

How normal to sit out the dance,

Eating the good meal by myself,

Toasting the empty glass;

And they’re already setting out

The next place,

Already forgetting about the last.

No, nothing could be less strange

In entropy

No change, no change, no change.

No danger in a normal life,

Better steady down the adrenalin pump.

Excess refraction in the mirror

Only leads to the quantum jump…

Oh, but it leaves me in limbo;

How strange, what a stranger I become.

No, no, nothing could be less strange

In entropy

No change, no change, no change.

No, I know how to behave

In the restaurant now,

I don’t tear at the meat with my hands;

If I’ve become a man of the world somehow

That’s not necessarily to say

I’m a worldly man.

Keep on shuffling the menu

And the order never comes on time.

No, there’s only diffraction patterns,

No reading between the lines;

Only the rate of emission,

And reason allows no rime.

Nothing could be less strange

In entropy

No change, no change, no change.

No, nothing could be less strange…

Entropy…

… a stranger, a worldly man