Strangers in Paradise is published Bi-monthly by Abstract Studios, and is written and drawn by Terry Moore, and immensely talented writer, and artist. This page is intended solely for entertainment purposes if you see an image that belongs to you, and you wish it taken off, please email me at: tooch508@aol.com . Thanks! I have included some of my favorite pictures and poems from the three volumes of SIP.
Song With no Title
This song has no title
You don't have to worry
I won't sing about your name.
But you know these days are sad enough
And more than lonely
When your love won't show up.
I call to you
I'm a voice on the rocks.
When you come to
You will see you're still lost.
Why can't I stay with you?
Why can't I stay with you?
Why can't I stay with you?
This time hurts me
The pain is true
Is it for me or is it really for you?
Its the last thing that lovers do
Now you must leave me
Or I'll leave you
I call to you
I'm a voice on the rocks
When you come to
You will see you are still lost.
Why can't I stay with you?
Why can't I stay with you?
Why can't I stay with you?
Running Late
I am waiting for you to see
What you do to me and to stop it
Running Late
I am waiting for you to love me
Please come and touch me
I'll thank you
Running Late
Desperate running to
Catch you briefly to
Let you see me
When I can be wrong
Count the pennies you give to me
Days I dare to say what I'm thinking
Running Late
I hold wonders in dreams and slumbers
I work to want to release them
Running Late
Blazed and blasting they swear its lasting to
Hear the foot steps behind me
Running Late
Desperate running to
Catch my dream globe I
See my heart in
The middle on fire
Running Late
My Other Life
When I wake up at night
Remembering my other life,
I scream
If I could find a way don't you believe
That I'd be there today?
But for my clever mind, to punish me,
I'm trapped inside this black design
My eyes are gallows and my heart's a nervous wreck
Trapped in confusion all around me I forget
My real name
But they call me profane
When I had angry eyes
To see beyond the veil of lies was nothing.
But now they're baby blue and don't see any answers,
I'm as blind as you.
If what they say is true then anything can happen
There are no border lines.
Tho' deep inside I hold the child I think I am,
My hands were midwife to the hell I'm living in.
Oh believe me,
I'm running out of time.
When I wake up at night
Remembering me other life,
I scream.
But every dawning the faith in me
beyond my reach more distant fades.
My eyes are gallows and my heart's a nervous wreck
My cries are fondled by the hangman's deadly kiss
Oh believe me,
I'm running out of
Winter Years Come
In your life I will call you to sea
The winter queen sings low.
Winter years come.
See the hearts winter claims
In frozen war
You can't get warm.
Winter years come.
Talk to me and justify it
Let me see, don't try to hide it.
Talk to me and justify it
Let me see, I won't be denied.
Talk to me and justify it
Let me see, don't try to hide it.
Talk to me and justify it
Let me see, I won't be denied...
In the Black of Your Heart
day by day we lose our civility when
night by night we play with hostility
seeding our hearts with constant desire
burning the proof in heavenly fire
hide me away in the black of your heart
hide me away and we'll make a new start
hide me away in the black of your heart
hide me away and pick me apart
hide me away in the black of your heart
hide me away in the black of your heart
hide me away in the black of your heart
Gods at Sea
Only legends know
That once there were gods in the sea.
Giants in size
With lullaby eyes
And dreams,
Like you and me
But when the lands
Broke out in war
The oceans in between
Were raging storms and firey hot
And filled with children's screams.
A few survived to see the day
When sunlight was dark amber
And heard the sounds of gods at sea
Leaving us
Forever
If You're Leaving Me
If you're leaving me
Please don't tell me
You're still pleasing me
Do I fail you?
I will wonder today
If tomorrow you'll stay
I can hear your voice turn cold
When you turn to me I know
I am the one who won't let go
Are you blaming me for holding on
When you let me know its my last chance
And I know its gone
If you're leaving me
Please don't tell me
You're still pleasing me
Do I fail you?
I will wonder today
If tomorrow you'll stay
You Can't Always Go Home
Scribbled and scratching
Half finished pages at dawn
People that live here are wondering
Where all their strengths gone.
Moments of splendor
Wind up like ashes in the rain,
One look you're smiling,
Another your face is in pain.
I wake up in the night
With the sweat on my head.
A look in your eyes
That will haunt me 'til dead.
I just can't seem to shake it
Something about what you said;
How love's like an orphan,
A motherless child gone unfed.
So we laugh with the joker,
Hold back the tears 'til they're gone.
Drink and be merry
They'll find us all dead men at dawn.
We're so far away
From wherever we came.
That sometimes
I wonder we'll see it again
It's true, what they say
You can't always go home
You can't always be warm inside.
That in love we're like orphans
Strangers in paradise
Do You Remember Yesterday
Do you remember yesterday?
Do you remember what I was like down?
I feel that madness come my way
I must drink to the viscious clowns
I don't know if they have found your ears
But I used to have a lot of names.
Then one so tender pushed me here
And I watched as they fade away.
Again I wake up on the tiles
It's like I was never gone.
And just before the pain comes on,
I remember this is where I started from.
A Distant Scream
Somedays I think
I'm going to give it all away
Find a job that pays
Some letters behind my name.
Somedays I'll be
Standing at a mirror looking in
Your face strats fading in
The feeling comes again.
I guess I'll always be
The losing side of you.
Your mismatched other shoe
Your after midnight blues.
Love is a mystery to me
A losers dream.
These days
Are spent in hot desire to be the way I was
To ride the magic bus
To try and stay in touch.
Afraid
My face is just a memory to those I knew.
In influential clue
To what they have to lose.
I guess I'll always be
The losing side of you.
Your mismatched other shoe
Your after midnight blues.
Love is a mystery.
To me a distant scream.
I Dream of You
I don't know why but I do
Dream of you
Losing you
I dream of you
I don't know why but I do
Think of you
Though we're through
I think of you.
Is it the same way for you?
Doesn't hi and goodbye sound so cruel?
How can I take my heart from you?
Even even though I'm losing you.
I still dream of you
I dream of you
I don't know why but you still
I know you know the tale of Baby June
This mask I wear you gave to me
This mask I wear to hide the pain.
Give me chills
Through your faults and pills
You still give me chills.
Doesn't hi and goodbye sound so cruel?
How can I take my heart from you?
When even though I'm losing you
I still dream of you
I dream of you.
Baby June
You know the way she could delivier a tune.
She was a killer in a petticoat
A little bit of everyone you adore.
And if your baby let you down at night
Baby June would make it up all right.
And I was never ever happier
Than in the arms and charms of her.
This Mask I Wear
One winter night beneath the trees
It's black and blue enshrouds my life,
Surrounds my eyes and blurs my sight. This mask I wear pretends I'm here
And hides me from the awful fear
That you might find the heart of me
And take that too, beneath the trees.
Its all I have to keep me sane.
I just fell down, I'm told to tell.
There are no words to stop this hell. This mask I pray to God for why
He hates me so much to watch me die
A little more with each night
This man comes in and rapes my life.
But little girls grow up, my friend
And learn the wicked ways of men.
And this mask I wear comes off the day
This mask I wear lays on your gave.