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The Psychopath, The Stranger – A Song.

Posted on October 25, 2013February 3, 2022 By psychopathicwritings

I Dedicate this Article to All of You out there Who Have had an Unfortunate, Perhaps even Traumatizing, Encounter or Relationship With a Psychopath, but Who Haven’t Yet Condemned All Psychopaths Completely.

A Reader sent me an Email and Asked Me if there was A Song that I Would Suggest for her to Listen To. With this Request she Inspired me to find and send her a link to ‘The Stranger Song’ Video by Leonard Cohen and I eventually Decided to Publish this Small Article and include the Lyrics. I therefore want to also Dedicate this Article to Her*.

All Other Readers and Guests at Psychopathic Writings are of course equally Welcome to View and Listen as well as leave Comments.

Leonard Cohen:
The Stranger Song

Is it true that all men you knew were dealers
who said they were through with dealing 

Every time you gave them shelter 

I know that kind of man 

It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone 

who is reaching for the sky just to surrender, 

who is reaching for the sky just to surrender. 

And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind 

you find he did not leave you very much 

not even laughter 

Like any dealer he was watching for the card 

that is so high and wild 

he’ll never need to deal another 

He was just some Joseph looking for a manger 

He was just some Joseph looking for a manger 


And then leaning on your window sill 

he’ll say one day you caused his will 

to weaken with your love and warmth and shelter 

And then taking from his wallet 

an old schedule of trains, he’ll say 

I told you when I came I was a stranger 

I told you when I came I was a stranger. 


But now another stranger seems 

to want you to ignore his dreams 

as though they were the burden of some other 

O you’ve seen that man before 

his golden arm dispatching cards 

but now it’s rusted from the elbows to the finger 

And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter 

Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter. 


Ah you hate to see another tired man 

lay down his hand 

like he was giving up the holy game of poker 

And while he talks his dreams to sleep 

you notice there’s a highway 

that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder. 

It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder. 


You tell him to come in sit down 

but something makes you turn around 

The door is open you can’t close your shelter 

You try the handle of the road 

It opens do not be afraid 

It’s you my love, you who are the stranger 

It’s you my love, you who are the stranger. 


Well, I’ve been waiting, I was sure 

we’d meet between the trains we’re waiting for 

I think it’s time to board another 

Please understand, I never had a secret chart 

to get me to the heart of this 

or any other matter 

When he talks like this 

you don’t know what he’s after 

When he speaks like this, 

you don’t know what he’s after. 


Let’s meet tomorrow if you choose 

upon the shore, beneath the bridge 

that they are building on some endless river 

Then he leaves the platform 

for the sleeping car that’s warm 

You realize, he’s only advertising one more shelter 

And it comes to you, he never was a stranger 

And you say ok the bridge or someplace later. 


And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind … 


And leaning on your window sill … 


I told you when I came I was a stranger.

I do Not Claim that Every Psychopath has a Good Person hidden Inside or that we merely Need People’s Love and Patience and Understanding (it Would Be an Obvious Lie), but I do Mean To Say that Not all Psychopaths Aim to Victimize and Hurt, indeed Some of us Intend to Do quite The Opposite.

Sometimes a Psychopath will be Initially Hoping for a Relationship that Functions well, but will Change Focus and Revert to Self Gratification when he Finds the Situation doesn’t Live Up to Expectations. But Some Psychopaths Will more Often Leave in a Gentle Manner and without Willfully Hurting or Creating Unnecessary Pain and Long Term Problems as Results of Their Involvement with and Presence in the Other Person’s Life.

……….
* Name with held with respect to privacy.

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