Do you have a *stranger*?

[celiaKitten]

Listening to this song .. made me wonder, how many of us do this, or how many realize it? What/who is yours?

The Stranger | Billy Joel

Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out and
Show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger

But 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?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everone goes south
Every now and then
You've done it, why can't
Someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself

Once I used to believe
I was such a great romancer
Then I came home to a woman
That I could not recognize
When I pressed her for a reason
She refused to even answer
It was then I felt the stranger
Kick me right between the eyes

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?

Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then
You've done it why can't
Someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself

You may never understand
How the stranger is inspired
But he isn't always evil
And he isn't always wrong
Though you drown in good intentions
You will never quench the fire
You'll give in to your desire
When the stranger comes along.

 

[lobito]

I haven't thought about it enough, but Billy Joel was the first concert I ever saw (1979).

 

[Jedi_Outcast]

Another billy Joel fan!

I am a stranger, esp. when I go off of zoloft. I get real moody, and different.

my wife has a stranger, but I haven't figured out what makes her come out yet.

 

[celiaKitten]

lol - I was uhm ... -2 yrs old.

 

[lobito]

yeah, you damned youngsters on this board, I tell ya.

I was a teenager by then, but just barely. The best part besides the music, was getting beer spilled on me.

 

[celiaKitten]

What? I've come here to learn from the masters *blatant ass-kissing attempt*

Went to a Marilyn Manson concert like that 3 years ago .. by the time I left, I smelled like an alcoholic raspberry.

 

[kotori]

One of my first, too

I haven't thought about it enough, but Billy Joel was the first concert I ever saw (1979).

but it was in 1974, in a little theatre at Princeton called Alexander Hall. Martin Mull was the opening act.

 

[Jedi_Outcast]

marylin who?

 

[Blues]

"People Are Strange"

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

 

[penguindance]

 

[Smooth_Operator]

overdue to reply with this...

"Yo, so check out my new move, I call it 'The Stranger'.
What I do is I sit on my hand for like 15, 20 minutes, until
it goes numb, no feeling at all. And then I rub one out"
- Gone In Sixty Seconds

 

[celiaKitten]

*ahem* answer the question, ...

 

[Smooth_Operator]

jeez, gettin so a fellow can't even hijack a thread anymore...

my 2 cents:

Sounds like Billy been reading his Freud, cause based on those lyrics, The Stranger also posts under the screenname Id.

So whats the question? Are we all a little Cybil? Do we all have an exterior and interior personality, and only occasionally let Mr. Hyde come out to play? As opposed to having a single identity with a normal behavoir and the possibility for extreme and novel variations? Functionally, they seem the same to me. For a real answer as to which is which, you need to understand human cognition and its bio-chemical underpinnings. Good luck with that one

 

[celiaKitten]

jeez, gettin so a fellow can't even hijack a thread anymore...

my 2 cents:

Sounds like Billy been reading his Freud, cause based on those lyrics, The Stranger also posts under the screenname Id.

So whats the question? Are we all a little Cybil? Do we all have an exterior and interior personality, and only occasionally let Mr. Hyde come out to play? As opposed to having a single identity with a normal behavoir and the possibility for extreme and novel variations? Functionally, they seem the same to me. For a real answer as to which is which, you need to understand human cognition and its bio-chemical underpinnings. Good luck with that one

I shouldn't have asked

lol - smartass

 

[Smooth_Operator]

. o O ( *sigh* Everyone always likes it better when I talk about rubbin one out. You'd think this was an erotica board or somethin )

Sorry, Kitten, didn't mean to get heavy on ya.

 

[Nora]

jeez, gettin so a fellow can't even hijack a thread anymore...

my 2 cents:

Sounds like Billy been reading his Freud, cause based on those lyrics, The Stranger also posts under the screenname Id.

So whats the question? Are we all a little Cybil? Do we all have an exterior and interior personality, and only occasionally let Mr. Hyde come out to play? As opposed to having a single identity with a normal behavoir and the possibility for extreme and novel variations? Functionally, they seem the same to me. For a real answer as to which is which, you need to understand human cognition and its bio-chemical underpinnings. Good luck with that one

The saddest part is that i understood every word. And without getting into the whole "Freud is a big bunch of hooey pseudoscience" (my favorite topic, btw) I'll just say that "The Stranger" is just not my favorite Billy Joel song. I'd have to go with "Through the Long Night" which is not only more interesting musically, but psychologically as well.

 

[celiaKitten]

. o O ( *sigh* Everyone always likes it better when I talk about rubbin one out. You'd think this was an erotica board or somethin )

Sorry, Kitten, didn't mean to get heavy on ya.

Don't be sorry at all. Just commenting on your smart-assness .. giving me an *answer* but not what I was thinking. I like you

(and it's ok - my brain just doesn't function quite as well this late )

 

[Smooth_Operator]

Don't be sorry at all. Just commenting on your smart-assness .. giving me an *answer* but not what I was thinking. I like you

(and it's ok - my brain just doesn't function quite as well this late )

Smartass, guilty as charged.

Also a former psych major before I decided I'd have a lot easier time living with myself if I were programming computers than if I'd tried to do so with people.