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Twenty Seven Strangers Lyrics — Villagers | Dork

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Twenty Seven Strangers Lyrics

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Twenty Seven Strangers

From Becoming a Jackal2010

Written by Conor O’Brien

Produced by Tommy McLaughlin, Conor O’Brien

Lyrics

Twenty Seven Strangers

The bus was late And forced us all to congregate Twenty-seven strangers Made to stand and wait The time went by The sun went down A baby cried I just stood in line But there is no cue No stage hand saying what to do And you are me And I am you The bus it came And everybody loaded in Twenty-seven strangers In a moving can The fluorescent light Doubled everyone inside The baby's face reflected In the shopfronts in the sky But faces change And rules they all get rearranged And photographs All fade away The bus broke down At the graveyard on the edge of town Twenty-seven strangers Separate without a sound So I walked home Just feeling nothing on my own Noticing that tree of yours I've been watching it grow So that's why I'm late My dearest one what can I say And tomorrow it could be the same When I do it all again

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About this track

"Twenty Seven Strangers" is a song by Villagers from the album Becoming a Jackal, released in 2010. The song was written by Conor O’Brien. It was produced by Tommy McLaughlin, Conor O’Brien.

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Tommy McLaughlin— 47 credits as songwriter & producer →
Bunt Stafford-Clark— 107 credits as mastering engineer →
Ben Hillier— 370 credits as songwriter & producer →
Conor O’Brien— 111 credits as songwriter & producer →
Tommy McLaughlin— 47 credits as songwriter & producer →
Conor O’Brien— 111 credits as songwriter & producer →

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