A Stranger
A Stranger

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Rock
Sep 15, 2003
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A Stranger Lyrics

Cast the calming apple
Up and over satellites
To draw out the timid wild one
To convince you it's alright

And I listen for the whisper
Of your sweet insanity
While I formulate denials
Of your effect on me

You're a stranger
So what do I care?
You vanish today
Not the first time I hear
All the lies

What am I to do with all this silence?

Shy away, shy away phantom
Run away, terrified child
Won't you move away, you fuckin' tornado
I'm better off without you
Tearing my will down

Writer(s): Maynard James Keenan, William L. Howerdel
Copyright(s): Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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What is the Meaning of A Stranger?

The song is about God. VERSE ONE is about praying ("cast the calming apple up and over satellites") to an inaccessible God for comfort ("to draw out the timid wild one, to convince you it's alright"). VERSE TWO describes the inner conflict between childhood religious indoctrination, and one's adult faculty of reason ("... while I formulate denials ..."). VERSE THREE dismisses God as a stranger for being so unknowable; condemns God for intentionally making things this way; begrudges the falsehoods that took root in the absence of any real knowledge of God (e.g. conflicting religions/beliefs/doctrines); then concludes with the realization that we're very much alone ("What am I to do with all this silence?"). VERSE FOUR continues the condemnation, equating God to a phantom, then to a coward, then to a force of destruction and ruin. The song ends by concluding that the cost of devotion to an absent God ("tearing my will down") is not worth the illusory benefits.

I believe this is about the inner soul fighting to overcome the addictive "demon" and the purity of the person before becoming a slave to the addiction trying to get away and come to the surface.

A man has a heart attack in the subway station, he falls down and is clear there's something terrible wrong with him. Just a foreign girl from a nearby store and my mate rush to help him, no one else even looked. It's been itching me why would people react -no, won't react- like that.

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