Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Split Enz
Canonical path: /split-enz/stranger-than-fiction
Related lyric paths: 6
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Stranger Than Fiction
Read Stranger Than Fiction lyrics by Split Enz on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Stranger Than Fiction
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Stranger than fiction
Larger than life
Full of shades & echoes
It's the story of my life
Just like a picture book
Daddys gone away
Leaving
Mummy in her room
With another one on the way
At nights I've heard her screaming
Through the coloured walls
(de woh la)
Oh please don't leave me alone
Please don't leave me alone
[spoken:]
And even her friend the hippyman
With his tarot cards to play
Drowning in his sea of words
Why he never has much to say
And I've seen him standing by the river
Singing to the birds
Just like the mystic says
Be careful of what you say
Talking to himself he needs no one
To help him on his way
Do you?
At nights I've heard him screaming
Through the candle flame
(de woh la)
Oh please don't leave me alone
Please don't leave me alone
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