Stranger Things Have Happened

Amazing but super sad song! It's about when your someone gets tired of you or the situation or something. They can't even describe why, but you know as well as they do that they are bored and have let the relationship go sour in their mind... past the point of no return. "Goddam this dusty room" - Things are getting old. "this hazy afternoon" – How you feel about the relationship is getting confusing. "breathing in this silence" - it's getting obvious that things are no longer as exciting as in the beginning and there's not much left to say.

He wonders if he should wait to share experiences (maybe sex) til she comes through the door or just take care of it himself now before she comes home. Maybe that aspect of the relationship is getting boring as well, yet he “behaves” so he can share it with her.

"You'll dream about somewhere A smoke will fill the air As I lay awake and wait For you to walk out that door" ...he's restlessly waiting for her disinterest in the relationship to be overcome by temptation, and he knows she will soon leave him and he will watch as she goes elsewhere for excitement.

Then, he talks about the conflict between how she wants him to constantly change and keep things exciting. Routines get boring. However, she also wants him to never change, always be there for her, and be a source of stability. Both cannot be accomplished simultaneously and neither alone will satisfy. This is torture for a guy who truly cares about a girl.

I am HOPING that the rest of you are right about the remaining lyrics being about hope. Or maybe it’s just a reminder that this is not that big of a deal. Loneliness tells you to feel bad, but then you remember that it’s not something to worry about because it happens all the time and everybody’s been there. Your existence does not depend on that of others, and it’s not the worst thing in the world to lose someone.

I think that this song is about wanting someone that you once had, but cant have anymore. If you’ve been in a situation like this you know what I’m talking about. The guy in the song spends the day by just sitting their wishing that the person he has been thinking about all day would change their mind and come back to him. The music in the song (mostly the guitar) gives off a somber type tone, which indicates some sort of regret. Yet despite all this, the song is slightly up beat, which shows that he still has hope that he would change if she gave him a second chance, and that Stranger Things Have Happened than a girl coming back to a person.

am i the only one who gets the feeling of this song being about someones partner being unfaithful?

"Goddamn this dusty room This hazy afternoon I'm breathing in this silence Like never before

This feeling that I get This one last cigarette As I lay awake And wait for you to come through the door" He is waiting for her to come home, quite sure of that she hasn't really "been out with her girlfriends", or whatever she might have told him.

"You'll dream about somewhere A smoke will fill the air As I lay awake and wait For you to walk out that door" He gets his suspicious thoughts about her cheating on him confirmed and just wants to be alone for a while

"I can change I can change I can change But who do you want me to be? I'm the same I'm the same I'm the same What do you want me to be?" He clearly puts the blame on himself and think that he has bored her or something, and he wants to do what he thinks has been wrong right, to get her to come back to him.

by the way, sorry for my bad english .__.

This is one of the best songs I've ever ever heard. My sister showed it to me a while ago and I was stunned by it.

I think it's about losing someone and NEEDING that person back. Asking "what do you want me to be in order to have you back??" I love how he emphasizes "i'm the same, i'm the same, i'm the same" in such a desperate way. Love it!

It's such a sad song, but I love it with a passion. You can never get tired of it. And I love playing that riff with my guitar :)

And yeah, it's "dear loneliness", not "lonely miss"

I absolutely love the this: This feeling that I get This one last cigarette As I lay awake And wait for you to come through the door

sigh

Well, while we are talking about tributes to other songs, I am pretty certain the "I can change, I can change, I can change" part and the lines following it pay homage to Verve's Bittersweet Symphony.

My real father left when i was about 5 or 6 and my mother hates him. The 1st stanza reminds me of the appartment me and my mom lived, where my dad left my mom. The 2nd stanza is when memories of my father leaving started kicking in and i realized how much i wanted him. The 3rd stanza is really how much i wanted to get to sit down after a decade and get to know and meet my dad. And the chorus "You were not alone dear loneliness...Oh,Oh." is when i tried to convince him that he was never really alone because i had been in this apartment waiting for him forever. "You'll dream about somewhere. Asmoke will fill the air." is my father dreaming about somewhere better he could be instead of with me. "As I lay awake and wait for you to walk out the door." because i knew he always would. "I can change" I blamed his absence on myself. "I can Change" My mom blamed herself for his AWOL attitude, crying for days and days and days on end for something she couldn't prevent. "I can change" I said to myself and wondered why I need to be the one changing. I watched my mom cry for too long for me to even express and realized why she hates him today and I figured the chorus of this song would be the only thing worth telling him one day.

"You were not alone Dear loneliness" he was the only one that was ever good enough for him.

"You forgot But I remember this" My mother

"Oh stranger stranger Stranger things have happened, I know" He is a complete stranger to me and I know what he has not been around to acknowledge.

"I'm not alone Dear loneliness" I always had someone who cared, My mother.

"I forgot That I remember this" I forgot why my mom hated him so much. I forgot that she was always there for me. I forgot that he would not change for his own blood...but I remember this.

"Oh stranger stranger Stranger things have happened" I know" I would tell the complete stranger and anyone else who is awed at the thought of a "Father/Stranger" who would walk out on his family...Stranger things have Happened.

Best song on the album. Love the metronome.

This song is amazing. Obviously about a relationship. Not sure what it's about beyond that...

Fantasic Song! Sounds like Disc 2 of IYH.

It's about hope... Great!