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Beautiful Strangers

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Beautiful Strangers was released on October 27, 2016 by Dead Oceans as a part of the album Beautiful Strangers b/w No Place to Fall - Single

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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Kevin Morby

Vocals

Alecia Chakour

Background Vocals

Elizabeth Pupo-Walker

Elizabeth Pupo-Walker

Percussion

Hannah Cohen

Background Vocals

Lauren Balthrop

Lauren Balthrop

Background Vocals

Sam Cohen

Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Kevin Morby

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Dan Goodwin

Mixing Engineer

Sam Cohen

Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

If you ever hear the thunder

Put your eye to the sky, boy, and wonder

Maybe there's a kingdom above the weather

Oh, and weather

You're gonna get on in, it's up to him

[Verse 2]

If you ever hear that crying

In the distance like some siren

Maybe there's a singer

With no ring around their little finger

No love

And if I lose my voice

If I have no choice but to go quiet

Won't you sing for me?

A melody into the night air

If I die too young, if the wolf he comes

Fee-fi-foe-fum

If I die too young, if the locust come

Well then, run, run, run

Free

[Verse 3]

If you ever hear that gun shot

You may think 'bout what you do

But you don't got

Say a prayer, think of mother

I am a rock

[Verse 4]

If you ever hear that sound now

If the door gets kicked in, here they come now

Think of others, be their cover

I am what they're not

[Verse 5]

Pray for Paris

They cannot scare us

Or stop the music

You got a sweet voice, child

Why don't you use it?

If I die too young, or if the gunmen come

I'm full of love

So release me, every piece of me, up above

Up above

[Verse 6]

Love my mama and my papa

Love my sister, can't stand the coppers

Up in their choppers

Oh, flying overhead, forty-nine dead

Singing, oh, my Lord, come carry me home

Oh, my Lord, come carry me home

I'm singing, oh, my God, oh, my Lord

Oh, my God, oh, my Lord

Oh, my God, oh, my Lord

Oh, my Lord

[Verse 7]

And if I die too young for something I ain't done

Carry my name everyday

Oh, I'm sorry

Oh, I'm sorry

Freddy Gray

But sleep easy like baby Jesus in a manger

Oh, sleep easy like little Jesus, beautiful stranger

Oh, beautiful stranger

[Verse 8]

If I die too young, let all that I've done be remembered

And I'll sleep easy like baby Jesus in his manger

And I'll sleep easy like little Jesus, safe from danger

Carry onward like some songbird, beautiful stranger

Carry onward like some songbird, beautiful stranger

Oh, beautiful stranger

Written by: Kevin Morby

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