Release: November 10, 2017
Lyrics:
Just like in the movies
It starts to rain and we
We're the broken beauties
Blindfolded minds collide and we fall
When the curtain drops
Our touch is just a touch
Not like in the movies
Our story's after the end
Like strangers, perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Strangers, perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Memories in photos
Too easy to rewrite
Left as lonely shadows
Holding each other tight and we fall
When the curtain drops
Our touch is just a touch
Not like in the movies
Our story's after the end
Like strangers, perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Think we got it, but we made up a dream
'Cause we've got a pretty look of what we could be, woo
I don't want you, all you want is someone
Going home together to forget we're alone
Think we got it, but we made up a dream
'Cause we've got a pretty look of what we could be, woo
I don't want you, all you want is someone
Going home together to forget we're alone
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
Not like in the movies
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
Not like in the movies
Like strangers, perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Strangers, perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Think we got it, but we made up a dream
'Cause we've got a pretty look of what we could be, woo
I don't want you, all you want is someone
Going home together to forget we're alone
Think we got it, but we made up a dream
'Cause we've got a pretty look of what we could be, woo
I don't want you, all you want is someone
Going home together to forget we're alone
Songwriter:
Strangers
(Think we got it, but we made up a dream)
('Cause we've got a pretty look of what we could be, woo)
Perfect pretenders
(I don't want you, all you want is someone
Going home together to forget we're alone)
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Martin Sjoelie / Sigrid Solbakk Raabe
SongFacts:
"Strangers" is a song by Norwegian singer and songwriter Sigrid. The song was released as a digital download by Island Records on November 10, 2017. The song reached number six on the Norwegian singles chart. Outside Norway, the single topped the charts in Scotland and Croatia and peaked in the top ten charts in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The song is included on the singer's debut album, Sucker Punch, and serves as the project's second single.
An official music video for "Strangers" was directed by Ivana Bobic for Riff Raff Films. It was first published on YouTube on November 30, 2017 with a length of four minutes and four seconds. As of June 3, 2023, it has received over 68 million views.
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“I love writing. It can be quite calculated. I guess pop music can be a bit calculated with, you have verse, pre chorus, chorus; Verse, pre chorus, chorus; middle eight, chorus, chorus or something else and I love that part. It’s like, I don’t love mathematics but I love equations. It sounds cool. It has to be equal on both sides. And I think kind of that’s how songwriting is for me, like a simple equation but then it’s like the magic in-between and so I love to be calculated on pop songs up to a certain point and from there that’s my favorite part where it’s just like you need that magic, you need the nerve and I think you can find that magic and nerve either in, often in vocal hooks. I don’t know how you make a vocal hook, it just happens, when it happens, it happens. Or it’s lyrics and it’s important for me that the lyrics says something. That it has a message.” - Sigrid Solbakk Raabe
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