"Three Strangers" lyrics

"Three Strangers"

It was there
Let go like a balloon
It went into a cloud
It's rain went in the river
And it's light into our eyes
And then went out

Maybe it was more than we could hold
Like a heart is just a hand
More than we could lose
A little more than we could find
More than we could live in a lifetime

It was real
It hit us like the wind
It fell out of our lips
And its mountain said forever
And forever ground it gently into bits

Maybe it was more than we believed
In those final piles of snow
More than we could laugh about
More than we could cry and
More than we could live in a lifetime

More than we could live
More than we could live

It was true
As perfect as a star
And as useless every night
And it woke up in between us on a bed
Three strangers side by side

Maybe it was more than we could make
Like a heart is just a hand
More than we could have
And though no matter how we tried
More than we could live in a life
More than we could live in a life
More than we could live in a lifetime


Writer(s): Sam Beam
album: "Hen's Teeth" (2026)
Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth album cover
Three Strangers
(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
California Sober
(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Pilgrim's Highway
(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Say What
(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
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