The first time you appeared there as a shadow on the wall.

The second time I barely even saw you there at all.

And all the dreams and fantasies that put you to the test.

I take the faintest outline, and my heart fills in the rest.

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Will I need you like the brand new morning sun.

Or will I grow to hate you, like all the other ones?

What I think you are is all I see.

And as long as you're a stranger...

As long as you're a stranger...

You'll stay perfect to me.

Every night a lonely fight for something to be clear.

I turn the page of dreary days and that's when you appear.

So I build you up in little clay constructions in my head

And I like what I see.

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I used to seek within the crowd a place for me to hide.

Or look in every eye and try to find myself inside.

But in all this confusion, I have finally seen the light.

I've never known a person like the you I know tonight.

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