CITY AND COLOUR - STRANGERS

STRANGERS

CITY AND COLOUR

SONGWRITER: DALLAS GREEN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: A PILL FOR LONELINESS

LABEL: STILL RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE

YEAR: 2019

 

     Dallas Michael John Albert Green(born September 29, 1980) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who records under the name City and Colour. He is also known for his contributions as a singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. In 2005, he debuted his first full-length album, Sometimes, which achieved platinum certification in 2006. City and Colour began performing in small intimate venues between Alexisonfire tours. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt uneasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green".

          "Strangers" is a single released by Canadian artist City and Colour on 21 June 2019, the second single released from A Pill for Loneliness. Dallas Green has said of the track in a statement “You’ll never really understand what it’s like to be inside someone else’s brain or heart. So, we need to appreciate the differences. If we do, maybe we can live better with one another.”

          The music video was released on 8 August 2019, co-directed by Chris Verene and Michael Maxxis, who Green had previously collaborated with on Alexisonfire's video for Familiar Drugs.

Don't wake me when this is over

Just let me drift amidst my dreams

I need to regain composure

And right now my heart is still and asleep

I refuse to believe

That we've become so obsolete

Don't wake me when this is over

'Cause I need to find the time lost in between

 

If we get back (Get back)

To loving each other (Loving each other)

Can we get back (Get back)

To learning how to live?

We are strangers in this land

With so much left to discover

Can we get back

To learning how to live?

 

We look to the heavens above

For advice on our lives

Searching for God at the bottoms of bottles

And in strangers' eyes

We're living in desperation

Drowning in medication

Lost in the folly of our age

 

If we get back (Get back)

To loving each other (Loving each other)

Can we get back (Get back)

To learning how to live?

We are strangers in this land

With so much left to discover

Can we get back

To learning how to live?

 

We are strangers in this land

We are strangers in this land.