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I Am A Stranger Lyrics
I am a stranger here below and
What I am is hard to know my
Heart is cold and dark within I
Fear that I'm not born
Again
When I experience call to mind my
Understanding is so blind, all
Feeling, sense, seems to be gone it
Makes me think that I
Am wrong
If I, forget your name
If I, forget your name
What will I do?
Tis' seldom I can never see my-
Self as I would wish to be, what
I desire I can't attain, from
What I hate I can't refrain
Everything's alright, yes
What I am is hard to know my
Heart is cold and dark within I
Fear that I'm not born
Again
Understanding is so blind, all
Feeling, sense, seems to be gone it
Makes me think that I
Am wrong
If I, forget your name
What will I do?
Self as I would wish to be, what
I desire I can't attain, from
What I hate I can't refrain
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I think it's about a fear of losing your faith. Seems pretty obvious, but I could be wrong.
It seems to be about experiencing the fragility of being human. About feeling the effects of total depravity and despairing for your own sinfulness. When he says "What I desire I can't attain, from what I hate I can't be found" it is reminiscent of what Paul says in Romans 7:18-19 "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing." or what he says in v.24-25 "Wretched man that I am! Who will save me from this body of death? Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
3rd verse, last line should be "from what I hate I can't refrain" (rhymes with "attain" in the previous line).
Being born again, in my opinion, is being spirit filled (speaking in tongues). I can understand this song because I've been in the position where I have been under pressure to receive that gift and now I am not sure if I actually have it or if I just convinced myself that I received it. It's an uneasy feeling, not knowing.