The Stranger

Preparing yesterday’s message on unveiling our faces I couldn’t get Billy Joel’s song, The Stranger, out of my head. I was in high school when the album was released in 1977 and so many of the songs bring back so many memories (Only the Good Die Young, Always a Woman, Vienna, She’s Always a Woman and my favorite, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant).

Before I can fully focus on this coming week’s message, here’s one last glance at The Stranger.

Well we all have a face

That we hide away forever

And we take them out andShow ourselves

When everyone has gone

Some are satin some are steel

Some are silk and some are leather

They're the faces of the strangerBut we love to try them on

Well we all fall in love

But we disregard the danger

Though we share so many secrets

There are some we never tell

Why were you so surprised

That you never saw the stranger

Did you ever let your lover see

The stranger in yourself?