A Stranger In Every Smile

Every smile looks warm
Every face feels close
But none of them are yours
A stranger, in every smile
Every smile, a stranger
They look at you, but don't see you

I see their smiles in passing light
A thousand faces shining bright
But every look just fades away
Like yesterday
They laugh like they all understand
A world that fits inside their hands
And in that space I start to see
What's left of me

In the glow I start to fade
Every feeling feels delayed
Not the life I try to show
But below

A stranger in every smile
Nothing feels the same
Every face that looks my way
Has no name
A stranger in every smile
I don't turn away
Every part that calls me now
Starts to fade

They are smiling, you are distant
They feel something, you feel missing
Faces glowing, you keep drifting
No reflection, just existing

I try to feel what they all feel
To make this moment somehow real
But something's missing deep inside
I cannot hide
The more I search within their eyes
The more I see through all the lies
And in that space I start to see
What's in me

Every second drifting slow
Through a life I cannot know
Not the place I try to be
But me

A stranger in every smile
Nothing feels the same
Every step I take within
Repeats the frame
A stranger in every smile
I don't turn away
Every part that calls me now
Asks me to stay

Maybe I was meant to see
What this distance means to me
Every feeling I denied
Stayed inside
And I stop resisting now
I don't question when or how
But the truth I couldn't show
Starts to grow

A stranger in every smile
Now I understand
I was never meant to feel
It in their hands
A stranger in every smile
I can finally feel
Every hidden part of me
Becoming real

A stranger in every smile
Soft and low
I'm just a soul behind the eyes
Learning flow

A stranger in every smile