This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Soft like a rose cloaked in daggers
Your grin I can lease for the anger
I'm sorry
You felt that
You needed to hide
The difference inside you
You know I'm filthy
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
You crept up on me
Like cat on a mouse
Light on my feet
Loose in the mouth
You waited
Until you
Saw me
Go so
The moment you break me
I'll say it simply
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
Words on the tip of my tongue
Taking anger back just for fun
I am not your prodigal son
(Son, son, son, son...)
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
Your grin I can lease for the anger
I'm sorry
You felt that
You needed to hide
The difference inside you
You know I'm filthy
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
You crept up on me
Like cat on a mouse
Light on my feet
Loose in the mouth
You waited
Until you
Saw me
Go so
The moment you break me
I'll say it simply
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
Words on the tip of my tongue
Taking anger back just for fun
I am not your prodigal son
(Son, son, son, son...)
Shut up,
And listen
Why don't you give up
This mission?
Shut up,
And look at me
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think
I'm just a stranger
Who let you think you knew me?
Lyrics submitted by bonky109
Stranger Lyrics as written by Jon White Kipp Williams
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it actually reminds me of my ex. he was soft as a rose cloaked in daggers wich to me basically meant, he was a good person but he would hide behind the way he dressed and this rebel image to seem tough to everyone to hide the differences (im sorry you felt that you needed to hide the different inside you) that he felt weak about. we only dated for two monthes and when he dumped me he started acting like he knew all about my life like as if we were married before. and i am basically just like, you think you knew me? he didnt know anything about me compared to most people in my life. and "give up this mision" was a thing like... he was always giving me this advice as if he knew all about my life and once (way before i even heard this) i sent him a message like basically telling him to shut up he had no idea what he was talking about and he needed to stop trying to give me advice on things because he didnt know what he was talking about "Shut up, And listen Why don't you give up This mission Shut up, And look at me I'm just a stranger Who let you think you knew me??" and once i said some kind of bitchy things to him and he started lecturing me with all this advice hoping i'd apoligize to him and go back to him so i just said "i can say what i want, but i take it back because i want to sound classy, and im not going to want you back now or ever." wich makes me think of "Words on the tip of my tongue Taking anger back just for fun I am not your prodigal son"
but like... i could probably make any song sound like its about my ex when i get mad enough at him....