Grandma's a stranger, smilin' inside   Holding her own as her old sense of pride lingers on, lingers on   Changing directions, changing these memories of crimes and crazy dreams   Piled up in front of me   Ice cream never erases the heat of her smile      Grandma's a stranger, a taste I recall   A warm intuition, to shine through the wall wrapped around it all   Never protecting the fall   Hot silent summers, backyard adventures, a world swept away by tomorrow today   And these games I play, to cover the distance I've made   Ice cream never erases the heat of her smile      Up ahead is a place   Where the future I see is but one generation away   Up ahead is a face of a queen, in-between, sight unseen      Grandma's a stranger, a wish gone away   A misty encounter, questions surround her   As children obey whatever tradition might say   Ice cream never erases the heat of her smile      Ice cream never erases the heat of her smile