Strange Affair - Dolores Keane

This is a strange affair

The time has come to travel but the road is filled with fear

This is a strange affair

My youth has all been wasted and I’m bent and gray with years

And all my companions are taken away

And who will provide for me against my dying day?

I took my own provisions, but it fooled me and wasted away

This is a strange, this is a strange affair

Oh, where are my companions?

My mother, father, lover, friend and enemy

Where are my companions?

They’re prisoners of death now and taken far from me

And where are the dreams I dreamed in the days of my youth?

They took me to illusion when they promised me the truth

And what do sleepers need to make them listen

Why do they need more proof?

This is a strange, this is a strange affair

Won’t you give me an answer?

Why is your heart so hard towards the one who loves you best?

When the man with the answer

Has wakened you, and warned you, and called you to the test

Wake up from your sleep that builds like clouds upon your eyes

And win back the life you had that’s now a dream of lies

Turn your back on yourself and if you follow

You’ll win the lover’s prize

This is a strange, this is a strange affair