With medicine trucks on the sidewalks
When summer comes the valley hums
Like a river to the end of my curdled song
With eyes like decals and a voice like an iron file
I'm not waiting for the hammer to fall
I know 'cos I've seen them come and go
None too different or the same you know

I know 'cos I've seen them come and go
Stranger, stranger, hard earned familiar
Stranger, stranger, I knew I knew you
Stranger, stranger, stranger
I'm not waiting for the hammer to fall

I've got no jokes
Now if you see a being borne into a trap, you free it
None too different or the same you know

Stranger, strange, though the earth be an anvil
I know 'cos I've seen them come and go
When music out of the arms of community flies, flies

Nobody knows what madness could come along
Some go high and very low
I'm not waiting for anything at all
Some go high and very low

Laid out those hands could be holy
It's quiet now, the streets are silent
Now the bug lights in the bank imbue you

Should be listening
Stranger, strange, though the earth be an anvil
I'm not waiting for anything at all
And you hit me up for more than
Just my shrapnel and smokes
Stranger, strange would it come if you could call it?
They know kindness when they see it