I have a house Looks out to sea And this is where he came The stranger with the face of a man I loved To the house by the sea Long time, long time gone A sort of home It's this house That what's left of his mind Seems to have remembered So what's left of his mind Claims the house as his Though it's been mine and mine alone since he left me here He left me here Half a life ago But this is where he came The stranger with the face of a man I loved In this house Where the best of our times I try to remember And the rest of the time I try to forget The times he lied and lied Before he just left me here The stranger with the face of a man I loved In the house by the sea Long time, long time gone A sort of home