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As I try to tell this story
My skin's no longer tight
I've been wanting to leave and get away from me
But I've lived through this night of fright
I've found real signs of other life
In disbelief I tell you what I've seen
It started out as simply normal
Driving in my car
Taking in the world and marveling the stars above
When a woman out of nowhere
Appeared to be in need
So I stopped to reach out a full friendly hand
But something wasn't right
She wasn't speaking at all
But I felt this urge to help her
As I told the girl to please get in my car
She looked on the verge of death
Pale white and freezing cold
So I placed my coat around her fragile arms
In a couple minutes time
Her face showed signs of life
She finally spoke and asked to take her home
She gave to me an address
I assured her to relax
For in minutes time she'd be there safe and warm
As I came across the cottage
My hitchhiker was home
She thanked me so and walked off through the door
As I turned to pull away
I remembered up my jacket
She wore it as she struggled to stay warm
I left my car and rang the bell
Thinking she'd be waiting
Instead I got the mother of my girl
She said that she'd been waiting
And not to say a word
And down a narrow hall
She took my hand and led the way
We stopped at a tiny room
That looked as if unlived
On her eyes I pictured some unsaved space
But before the stable black
The signature of death
She warned me that my passenger was dead
I didn't believe a word
She was sitting right beside me
Her lips black rotting in my car
She took my hand and led me back
Outside and through a gate
To a private cemetery in the yard
On a gravestone I saw a picture
Of an unexpected guest
From the grave I learned she died some time ago
She said her stranger's gone
Her daughter finds her right
Born after her time brought her to the ground
And every night she comes home
To please her lonely mother
It's an instinct from the time she spent on earth
But she's gone
She assured me death had come
And this ghostly image was living on in my mind
I told her to cherish her spirit
She just sat and cried at the grave
I told her to cherish her spirit
She just sat and cried at the grave
In the cold she wasn't mourning
At the passing of her child
So I felt the need to leave and let her be
But I stopped to quickly question
Who was my freezing stranger
She was the perfect image of the girl
As I turned to leave the madness
I caught a flash of something
It was sticking out from underneath the grave
In a shocking revelation
I became in one with death
And instantly I learned the woman spoke the truth
For in the grave before me
My jacket in the ground
The one I gave my stranger on this night
This very night
She was my stranger
Yet she was dead
Familiar stranger
Familiar stranger
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