Stranger in the House

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:32 am

if no one will ever see, how can everybody say he looks like me?

stormwarning · Post by **stormwarning** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:46 am

That's the whole point - he's become ignored, transparent, invisible. As in "Now I'm the Invisible Man"

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:23 am

I should have added a

. I appreciate the metaphor, but it's one of those things like when people say (at least around here they do) 'I got a friend OF MINE.' it drives me batshit.

stormwarning · Post by **stormwarning** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:26 am

Oh, I see.

lapinsjolis · Post by **lapinsjolis** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:21 pm

I was listening to this a few years back with my mother. She said, 'Oh it's about a new baby.' So since then I take it that no one sees the child as a stranger but the narrator. The rest about the period of adjustment, emotional, physical and in the relationship that a new baby brings. He is pushed aside but the child's needs no more 'carefree days' the baby is the focus and he's a bit pouty.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:44 pm

no. storms about right. really the relationship is just dead. the first line covers it. one of the most direct recordings he has ever made.

lapinsjolis · Post by **lapinsjolis** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:55 pm

No. I'll stick with my mother's take.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:22 pm

no. it's about me.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:23 pm

no. it's about me.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:47 am

interesting take, LJ.

since I couldn't sleep this morning, I took the liberty of re-writing the line.

"There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see
but someone should've said she's missing meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

thank you animal lovers. elvis, you owe me a coke.