The Path: Stories with Strangers - A Different Type of Heartbreak

This song is my most recent composition, written a few years ago, after a very close friend of mine and I had a particularly painful falling out.

The idea for this album's title, "Stories with Strangers", more or less came from this song, or at least the title's concept did, which I then applied to the rest of the pieces and songs. The collection of songs in this album represents parts of myself, as well as other people, who used to be in my life but are no longer.

My distressed friend from middle/high school, the boy with the compelling voice, this former friend of mine... As well as the person I was in "Whoever You May Be" and each of the other songs. Those are all people I no longer interact with, but each of them left a small imprint on my heart, as many strangers do.

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No one's gonna stay

If you keep pushing them away

Of course they're gonna leave

If you make them go

I wanted to say that I'd keep

Learning from you

But this lesson in pain

Is the best that you could do?

Put up a barrier around your heart

Never let another person in

Don't let anybody see

The light that shines inside of you

Build your walls and keep 'em up

The only way to truly feel safe

In the dark and all alone:

Is that your paradise?

Cause no one's gonna stay

If you keep pushing them away

Of course they're gonna leave

If you make them go

It hurt so much to hear

That no matter what we'd been through

You would prefer to have no one

You would prefer to have no one

No one's gonna stay

If you keep pushing them away

Of course they're gonna leave

If you make them go

It hurt so much to hear

That no matter what we'd been through

You would prefer to have no one

This lesson in pain...