Random Thoughts
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Personally (Strays)

I bring all these strangers home
But 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 none seem to bring you to the edge or even wet your smile
While I am always patient, waiting for you to come a while

  Of all these things
  All these people
  None of them can
  Melt your steeple

Baby's beginning to 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
I was glad to share with you as much as she could leak
She was married, unshaven too, we didn't seem to care
All she wanted, all you could take is that you take her there

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

(chorus)

Then there's that boy - oh, he's not a boy, he was a man for real
I thought a treat for you who you could taste and feel
Certainly he was a man, he'd kneel down to drink
But that look - I could tell - I could feel your feelings shrink

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

(chorus)

I'm not sure sometimes what you really want
And if I could bring it home to you from my usual haunts
But I know when I'm in 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

Baby's finally taking it personally
I thought you never would
I bring all these strange things home
Plug them in to do you good

It takes more and more to move you now but I can find the door
I'm always sure I'll part your hinge like a thousand times before
Your thirst is grown unholy but you hunger for me still
I know that it's wrong to do but I'll plunder you at my will

  Takes more and more
  To move you now
  I'm door to door
  To teach you how

  (repeat)

(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

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