The Airborne Toxic Event & The Calder Quartet
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event & The Calder Quartet
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event & The Calder Quartet
The Airborne Toxic Event
It was an old song from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me that she sang
It was an old line I’d kept with me when she rang
You’re such a strange girl
It’s all been erased
Everyone is telling me. It’s slightly deranged
Everyone is telling me
We traded blindness for wisdom and some lines around our eyes. But you just act like it was a fact of life and didn’t come as a surprise
You’re such a strange girl
And no, you can’t ever go home
Everything has changed, and the people are gone
So you close your eyes, you summon the song
And you feel your life falling under you
Like a slide, like a slide
It was an old song, I once knew every note and every line
It was a long night when, I carried you and you carried me for a time
You’re such a strange girl
It’s all been erased
Everyone is telling me. It’s slightly deranged
Everyone is telling me
I dreamt of your face and what the song was telling me
But time has made it all obscene and trapped us in our dreams
Strange Girl was written by Noah Harmon & Mikel Jollett.
Strange Girl was produced by Dave Sardy.
The Airborne Toxic Event released Strange Girl on Tue Apr 26 2011.
On the website’s “White Noise” section, Mikel Jollett talked about how The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” influenced this song:
The Cure was my favorite band growing up. This song is about the song “The Perfect Girl” — and all those great Cure songs to which I knew every single word — and how much music...