Perfect Strangers Lyrics

Lyric discussion by james16264 

Cover art for Perfect Strangers lyrics by Deep Purple

The perfect stranger is the whispering wind! The angel or demon on your shoulder. If you know about the silver cord, then you know about astral projection. The watchers as Enoch called them. In the Bible the believer is guided by hidden teachers. Depending on your path, it is either a demon, or an angel. Many writers say the song sometimes "writes itself". Many religious writers say the words come from God! I believe a lot of writers don't know what their own material represents! EVERYTHING here is symbolic of things unseen, or spirit. If you do not believe this dig deeper into your own spirit. The secret societies, all religions good and bad, and many other sects certainly understand this. This is my observation, take from it what you will.

My Interpretation

@james16264 I love that! How beautiful. I will listen to the song in a different way now.

@james16264 According to the author: Can you recapture the past? Will the flames burn again so fiercely? These were the questions we asked ourselves as we stood, together again for the first time in over ten years, somewhat shakily in the mid-eighties. Deep Purple. We were a family, albeit a troubled one, and the spirit of what had gone before was drawing us together again; unlikely as that may have seemed just a year earlier. We had each of us been on great Odysseys and that meant that we were not the raw individuals that had made things work in '69. The...