Let's talk about..Some Become Strangers

[michelej1]

Oh, my favorite non-Stevie-penned, Stevie song, because I think it falls in perfectly with the message of songs she did write. Superb.

I like the whole thing. I like the "thing is, time was" part quoted above, but I also like, "I could never make it better for you, anyway." Just the way she sings it. Her voice seems to carry a whole relationship arc in one sentence. Exhausting all efforts to make it work, maybe for years and then just summing the whole affair up very quickly: I could never make it better for you, anyway. No matter what I did. Love Changes reminded me of this part.

Now the memory of giving you is giving out. Whoa.

Then, didn't want to be the one to say goodbye in a stranger's eyes. That captures it even better than the title phrase, which is pretty good in itself. By the time they parted, he was just someone she didn't know or recognize anymore.

Then, I like the ending and the exchange of words from "some become strangers" to "soul become a stranger."

I don't really understand the "this light here" part.

Whatever, I love this song.


Michele