We don't talk much, we don't make love like we used to and I stay guarded

I've got walls and triggers I never thought I had and so do you

But this is love and that's the way we seem content to play it



I touch your clothes when you're gone, I let your scent wash over me

You cry at night and you wish just like a child

That we were how we used to be



Chorus:

There's a stranger in the house, in the house

There's a stranger in the house, in the house

There's a stranger in the house, in the house

And she looks like somebody from a lifetime ago



I stonewall you, you stonewall me, but we both know that

Hiding deep inside us lives the love that we try hard to lose and never will

But this is war and that's the way we seem content to fight it



I get so angry and confused 'cause I want out but I want you

You can't decide between moving out or moving in, you don't know what to do



With a stranger in the house, in the house

There's a stranger in the house, in the house

There's a stranger in the house, in the house

And she looks like you, and he looks like me



(Solo)



Is this the same girl that I fought so hard to win and now I fight to lose her

Now I feel that it's just like skin to skin and nerve to nerve

Strung out like wire, is that the way we are content to live



We face off in anger in rooms once filled with love

Looking for a chink in the armour, where we can stab the blade

What are we thinking of



chorus



There's a stranger in the house, in the house

(repeats)



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