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Some Kind Of Stranger is the last track on Side 2of The Sisters of Mercy's first studio album First And Last And Always

and is consequently featured also on all following later record company releases

A Japanese album mix is available on the bootleg-CD Temple Of Rarities.

Original Album - 1985

Merciful Release 3CD Box - 2006 Rhino re-releases -

Sisters Ray - CD 1992

Temple Of Rarities - CD 1988

The song was first performed live on October 9th, 1984 at Powerhouse, Birmingham, UK during The Sisters' Black October Tour in 1984

and could last be heard in this stand-alone version on March 25th, 1985 at Lyceum, London during the Tune in... turn on... burn out... Tour in spring 1985.

An early demo version with different lyrics is also known to exist and has been used by Rhino Records as a bonus track for their 2006 (individual)

and 2007 (box-set) re-releases of Sisters albums in CD format.


In the 1990s, The Sisters of Mercy adopted their famous medley version of Comfortably Numb / Some Kind Of Stranger,

which was first performed live during the Summer Festivals in 1992 at Go Bang! Festival, Stadion Wuhlheide, Berlin, Germany on 13 june 1992

and is featured on countless bootlegs such as Out In The Dark, Dark Paradise (CD), Electric Live, Enjoy The Puppet Show, and Donau So Blau.

Out In The Dark

Dark Paradise

Electric Live

Enjoy The Puppet Show

Lyrics

PART I

And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I tried to say, but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door

And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch

All of my words are secondhand and
Useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things I
fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
unknown footsteps in the hall outside

And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch

PART II
Because the world is cruel, and
Promises are broken
Don't try to tell me
Anything, don't try to tell me
You'll be true to me, you know the
Real truth is never spoken

And I know the world is cold, but
If you hold on tight to what you
Find you might not mind too much though
Even this must pass away and
Memories will last for years but
Names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of angel let me
Look into your eyes

Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason for surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song

Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside

Music: Gary Marx / Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
Lyrics and music are property and copyright of their respective rights holders and provided only for study purposes.

Analysis

For some attempts at interpretation, please avail yourselves of the following Heartland Forum threads:

• album version

• early version

A lovely read about the early version of this song is also available in the I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan blog under Some Kind of Stranger (Early) .