Stranger Within (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

Light gets through a crack in the door

I tape up the windows once more

Tight like a cold hand of fear

Don't fear the stranger within

Hands that petrify in the air

Eyes catching things never there

Sweet tension caught on my breath

Don't fear the stranger within

Watch every shape that escapes

Scared to make that final mistake

Speak to hear the sound of your voice

Don't fear the stranger within

Sit in the corner with your back to the wall

Pray to your God with your head in your hands

Your mask of fear is shrinking fast

It's closing in more amour

You stand on borrowed time your sweating palms and chilling brow

That wide eyed panic makes you laugh you cry and laugh

Freeze until the noise decays a shuffle from behind a door

Your throat is tight it makes you choke and smoke and choke

Eyes will grow accustomed

To the dark a stifled scream that won't come out

There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within