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Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition)
Wrong Crowd

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Wrong Crowd

Release date: 4th April 2016

From Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition)

Singer/Songwriter Music

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About This Track

'Wrong Crowd' is a 2016 track by Tom Odell from the album 'Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition)'. The lyrics put a narrator in the grip of repeated conflict, with a mother urging him to stop fighting and warning that it will only harm him. Despite that plea, he admits he cannot help himself, and frames his habit of staying “with the wrong crowd” as something he cannot quite change. The mood is self-aware and stubborn, a mix of regret and resignation in the face of bad company.

"Wrong Crowd" is a track by Tom Odell, from the album Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition), released 4th April 2016. It's filed under Singer/Songwriter. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Tom Odell.

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Tom Odell

Tom Odell

Lyrics

Wrong Crowd

[Verse 1]

And my mother is standing beside me

As I'm packing my bags in the car

She says, "Please, boy, no more fighting

Oh, it's only gonna do you harm"

[Chorus]

But I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging round

With the wrong crowd

I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

(Ohhhh)

My boy

[Verse 2]

And my brother is standing behind me

As I'm slowly going out my head

He says, "You know those people don't like me

Why'd you wanna be one of them?"

[Chorus]

But I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

[Bridge]

I wish I could find somebody

Ohhh, That my mother would like

Oooooh, I wish I can find somebody

That could treat me right

[Chorus]

But I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

Singing, I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

Thinking, I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

Thinking, I can't help it, I don't know how

I guess I'll always be hanging 'round

With the wrong crowd

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Track details

From Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition)

2016

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Album

Wrong Crowd (Expanded Edition)

Release year

2016

1Wrong Crowd
4:28
4Constellations
4:36
5Sparrow
4:57
6Still Getting Used to Being on My Own
3:04
8Jealousy
3:50
9Daddy
3:19
11Somehow
6:53
12She Don't Belong to Me
3:58
13Mystery
4:24
14Entertainment
3:31
15I Thought I Knew What Love Was
3:47
—Wrong Crowd
4:28
—Sparrow
—Entertainment
—Concrete
3:50
—Jealousy
—Somehow
6:53
—Here I Am
3:29
—Sparrow
4:57
—Magnetised
3:58
—Constellations
—Wrong Crowd
—Somehow
—Still Getting Used to Being on My Own
—Mystery
—Daddy
—She Don't Belong to Me
—I Thought I Knew What Love Was
—Magnetised (Acoustic)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Rick Nowels, Tom Odell
Producer: Jim Abbiss, Tom Odell
Engineer: Steve Vealey
Drums: Andy Burrows
Guitar: Max Clilverd
Vocals: Tom Odell
Arranger: Tom Odell
Assistant Mixing Engineer: Steve Vealey
Bass Guitar: Max Goff
Double Bass: Max Goff
Mastering Engineer: Joe LaPorta
Mixing Engineer: Michael Brauer
Percussion: Andy Burrows
Piano: Tom Odell

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