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North American Stranger

from Between The Break by Emanuel and the Fear

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lyrics

He was a North American stranger in some North American town,
Had all the money anybody could need, watched it fall from whatever he found

He was a young and delicate savior in some tailors wanting arms,
Thought she could build from everything he was seeing but didn't care much for what he did

Ah, but he kept his hopes held on, fell into another strange fortune
While all the people who could see him worked on making their ideas
Out of all of the things that he'd already won

He was a North American angel in his north North American tower,
Had all the women any man could've dreamed, but didn't care much for what they were seeing

He had a good friend worked as an artist she said nothing real could last
When every image everybody believed was forced to look as good as it can

And then she pulled each of the layers away
Showed him how each of them were painted and changed
So every person looked exactly the same and untouchably farther away from the real thing

He couldn't stop himself from seeing his face,
Thinking if he would try to take it away
Would people look and talk at him as if he
Was another man and how different he would have been

He was a North American stranger in his foreign distant land
Trying to tell his friends of what he had seen, but no one seemed to give a damn

It was a strange and delicate angle that he pushed with weighted hand.
If all he was had come from how he was seen then he didn't care much for what he had

Ah but he kept his hopes held on
Found some other place with a folk that want
Not to have to go to war with how a body’s shape is all a person's ever really known for

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from Between The Break, released October 20, 2022
Emanuel Ayvas - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
Nic Cowles - Organ
Jeff Gretz - Drums
Sarah Elizabeth Haines - Violin, Viola, Vocals

Recorded and Produced by Emanuel and the Fear (Brooklyn, NY)
Composed by Ayvas/Cowles/Gretz/Haines (BMI)
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Mastering (Pittsburgh, PA)

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