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LP

Strange

Release date: 16th June 2016

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About This Track

'Strange' is a song about the people who stay, the ones who let you be yourself without apology. LP sings of finding home not in a place but in those rare connections where you can "burst into flames" and be met with understanding rather than judgment. The track moves between the everyday miracle of loyalty and a harder truth: that anyone can offer surface things like love or money, but few will show up when things get difficult. The chorus plants its flag simply. "We are all strange / And it ain't never never ever gonna change." It is not a lament. LP treats strangeness as a fact of being human, something to accept rather than fight. The song finds its anchor in the people who know this about you and stay anyway, who offer what the lyrics call "a knowing smile" when you walk into uncertainty. That recognition, offered without condition, is the only real guarantee worth naming.

"Strange" is a track by LP, from the album Death Valley, released 16th June 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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LP

LP

Lyrics

Strange

[Verse 1]

Hey

Anyone can get love

Anyone can get laid

You know you're home when you find the ones who stay

Brave enough not to tame

They let you burst into flames

Stoke the coals and then watch you blow

[Pre-Chorus]

They're the ones make you trust in the universe

When you're lost and you're left and it's getting worse

They're the ones who you know will get you by

[Chorus]

We are all strange

And It ain't never never ever gonna change

We are all strange

And it ain't never ever never gonna change

[Harmonizing]

[Verse 2]

Hey

Anyone can get paid

Anyone can get saved

Everyday I still walk into the wild

The only thing I can see

The only real guarantee

Whenever I catch a knowing smile, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]

They're the ones make you trust in the universe

When I'm lost and I'm left and it's getting worse

They're the ones I know will get me by

[Chorus]

We are all strange

It ain't never ever ever gonna change

We are all strange

And it ain't never ever ever gonna change

[Harmonizing]

[Outro]

We are all strange

But it ain't never ever never gonna change

We are all strange

And it ain't never never ever gonna change

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Death Valley

2016
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    LP, Mike Del Rio, Nate Campany
    Producer
    Mike Del Rio
    Engineer
    Mitch McCarthy
    Guitar
    LP
    Background Vocals
    Mike Del Rio
    Mastering Engineer
    John Greenham
    Mixing Engineer
    Rob Kinelski
    Ukulele
    LP
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