Strangers Lyrics
No time's the right time to reach out but here I go
Always scared to love, wouldn't be enough, never be enough, we were way too young
The way we ended it, you know it makes me sick
How two people once could be so in love, now we never talk, never talk about
[Pre-Chorus]
All the things we said and couldn't take back
Swear I never meant it, and I hate that I hurt you
What I know right now, wish I knew then
I'm tryin' to but I still don't understand
[Chorus]
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
The things I love about you, I'm supposed to forget
And every time I think about you, it don't make any sense
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
[Verse 2]
Dive bars and our first kiss
Sophomores without scars yet
Thirty-six months, just the two of us
Only one mistake to mess it up
I know I took so long to give you a response
It was just my pride pushing it aside
Pushing you aside, make you wait for once
All the things we said and couldn't take back (Couldn't take back)
Swear I never meant it, and I hate that I hurt you (Hate that I hurt you)
What I know right now, wish I knew then
I'm tryin' to but I still don't understand
[Chorus]
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again (Strangers again)
The things I love about you, I'm supposed to forget (Supposed to forget)
And every time I think about you, it don't make any sense (Don't make any sense)
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
[Bridge]
(Strangers again)
Strangers again
Strangers again
[Chorus]
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
The things I love about you, I'm supposed to forget
Oh, and every time I think about you, it don't make any sense
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
[Outro]
Strangers again (No, no)
Strangers again
We started out as strangers, now we're strangers again
About
“Strangers” is one of the three new tracks from her second EP you ruined new york city for me. FLETCHER described the track as the most personal track on the entire EP in an interview with Billboard:
‘Strangers’ was inspired by the first time my ex and I had any sort of communication, over a year after we ended. It was a Facebook message, we had sent one each[,] back and forth to each other. So I pulled the lyrics from those messages, actually. If you listen to them, the verse lyrics are pretty specific. It’s filled with some of the things that we had said.
Q&A
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During a Track by Track with Billboard in August 2019, FLETCHER said:
This is actually my first time talking about “Strangers,” like, at all! It’s probably the most personal to me on the entire project – “Strangers” was inspired by the first time my ex and I had any sort of communication, over a year after we ended. It was a Facebook message, we had sent one each back and forth to each other. So I pulled the lyrics from those messages, actually. If you listen to them, the verse lyrics are pretty specific. It’s filled with some of the things that we had said.
Truly, it blows my mind how we go from being strangers, and then you spend so much time with somebody, and you get to know them on such a personal level, and then suddenly they’re out of your life again like they never existed. It’s definitely the hardest for me to sing and talk about, because it came from the realest place. All of the other songs originated from what I was feeling, and my take on the situation. But “Strangers” is the one song where it was a two-way conversation, and all things that we said to each other. It definitely has its own personality and sets itself apart from the other songs on the EP.
Yes! FLETCHER performed “Strangers” live on tour:
