Personally (Strays)

I bring all these strangers home
They're not for me alone

Of all these things and people that I bring home for us
You're easily led to water, bent over for the thrust
But no one brings you to the edge or even wets your smile
While I am always patient I know you'll come a while

  It takes more and more
  To move you now
  I go door to door
  To teach you how

You finally take it personally
I never thought you would
I bring all these strangers home
I thought they'd do you good

Take that woman I brought to you from the club late last week
She was glad to share with you as much as she could speak
She was married, unshaven too, we didn't seem to care
All she wanted, all you could take is that you make her there

  Take that woman
  Take her and when
  She's coming back
  For you with men

(chorus)

And then that boy - he's not a boy, he was a man for real
I thought a treat for you to taste who you could really feel
Certainly he was a man, he'd kneel down to drink
But that look - I could feel - your tumescence shrink

  And then that boy
  Oh then that man
  He'll come again
  Right in your hand

(chorus)

There are times when I'm not sure just what you really want
And if I could bring them home to you from my usual haunts
But I know when I'm in hip-deep and down you slippery fall
You're writing Braille a fingernail backstroke before you crawl

  Sometimes you want
  Total control
  Sometimes I need
  You deep in my soul

You finally take it personally
I thought you never would
I bring all these strange things home
Plug them in to do you good

It takes more to move you now but I can find the door
I'm sure I'll always part your hinge and feel you handle more
Your thirst is grown unholy but you hunger for me still
I know that it's wrong to do I'll bend you to my will

  (i) It takes more and more
  To move you now
  I go door to door
  To teach you how

  (ii) I work much more

  (iii) You take to the floor
  If it moves you now

(chorus 2)

I bring all these things for you
And slip them in your head
Baby take this anyway
While we share our bed

  Sometimes I want
  Total control
  Sometimes you need
  Me deep in your soul

  Sometimes you want
  Total control
  Sometimes I need
  You deep in my soul

  Sometimes I take
  Total control
  Sometimes you feed
  Me deep in your soul

11/15/25

© Huw Powell
printed 10 December 2025

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Personally (Strays)