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Strange Room Lyrics
A pint set on the piano by the open window
Your arm around my shoulder
One song after another
A church to praise the good times
And shelter from the bad times
And when our run came to an end
Felt like I’d lost my best friend
For a moment I was dreaming
We were just beginning
Thought, “Finally I’ve come home
Finally I’ve come home"
Officer let me explain
I lost something I love today
Yeah I know what it looks like
A rich kid with a good life
Now I know you’re too young to
Have done things you can’t undo
To rake over your dreams
And know this is what they’ve come to
I woke up in a strange room
Time to start again now
No one to help you find a way through
You’re just meant to guess it somehow
Well for a moment I was dreaming
We were just beginning
Thought, “Finally I’ve come home, finally I've come home"
The singer has destroyed his relationship and is looking at all the pieces on the floor. "Strange Room" refers to either a police station cell after a ruinous night (hence talking to the officer), or the stranger\'s bedroom they woke up in after the previous song on the album, "Put the Radio On".\n\nI was in a long-distance relationship with a girl I first met in high school, 11 years later. I had moved away from Britain to Australia in that time, but was preparing to move back to be with her. It fell apart and didn\'t happen, and so the chorus ("finally I\'ve come home") rings bittersweet for me.
You may have read this by now, but he explained to Apple Music (music.apple.com/ag/album/cause-and-effect-deluxe/1464647374):
You may have read this by now, but he explained to Apple Music (music.apple.com/ag/album/cause-and-effect-deluxe/1464647374):
"A very romantic song. I had this really lovely group of friends down in Sussex where I live in the UK. We'd get together at my apartment and sing songs together. That was a really important support network for me after I was first on my own. Then the landlord of a local pub had to move away. On the night of his leaving party at the pub, I drank way too much. I stupidly, stupidly drove my car and crashed...
"A very romantic song. I had this really lovely group of friends down in Sussex where I live in the UK. We'd get together at my apartment and sing songs together. That was a really important support network for me after I was first on my own. Then the landlord of a local pub had to move away. On the night of his leaving party at the pub, I drank way too much. I stupidly, stupidly drove my car and crashed into a ditch just up the road. I got arrested and spent a few hours in a prison cell. I was just like, 'Holy s**t. How'd this happen? What am I doing? This is not me at all.' It's a gentle and sympathetic way of expressing what can happen in someone's mind to lead them to make terrible decisions. It's a really crucial song on the album, not least because it was the one that Tom really latched onto."
This song is hauntingly beautiful.