This is something I wrote almost without effort in 2015….the recording here is not well done in that the vocals are not recorded on another track so I can increase the volume. Be that as it may, I have included the lyrics here as well.
Stranger Things Have Happened(04)
F Fm F Cm F
All I had to do was even the score, it wasn’t all that bad
F Fm F Cm F
Someone was up Someone was down I just couldn’t make them mad.
F Fm F Cm F
One final step to the side of the road, is often all that we own
F Fm F Cm F
Flying down the center with the heartbreak from hell
F Cm F
Was something I could have left alone.
Cm Bb7 F
One false look and the day could go either way
Cm Bb7 F
Dawn street deliveries and the dream that could not stay
Ab/Cm Bb/Gm Dm
Peel the scene off and the rest of Life comes to play
Bb7 Cm F
Stranger things have happened but where I swear I cannot say.
Been in town for ten long years, only took a minute to leave
Gathered up the stuff that looked too rough, found a home under a tree
Told myself more than once I had to make a stab for the Truth
No finer way to claim the fame than to pull someone else’s chute.
Dumbstruck thunder and I must have been insane
Trying to be part of something I had to rename
One lost child and a fortune left unclaimed
Stranger things have happened but I swear they are not the same.
Fought my way out of the storm
Walking with the Ghosts of our Youth
I survived what I couldn’t describe
Ripping off the tourniquet of Proof.
I found the mark of a cool long sin
But I never thought to pretend
She was the school without any rules
And I was just the long-lost friend.
Back breaking angels and a cry from up above
Only thing missing was something else to love
Better to hope than face the emptiness so clear
Stranger things have happened but nowhere more than here.
Ocean Joe's Piano 