Since every music critic keeps missing the obvious, here’s a totally uncool overt explanation of the themes here. This is a song about existentialism and race, drawing on personal experience, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Albert Camus' The Stranger.
[Verse 1]
I'm angry all the time
And I can't fall back in line
Anymore, anymore
My eyes are open wide
No, I don't belong inside
Anymore, anymore
[Pre-Chorus]
I get this feeling
I hate this feeling
I start to feel like
[Chorus]
I speak so well but you don't hear me
I might wreak hell so don't come near me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
Touch my skin but you don't feel me
I blend right in so you don't kill me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
[Verse 2]
Lord forgive my sins
Ripped the curtains once again and it stung, didn't it?
I'd love to let you bliss
But your history is myth and it stings, doesn't it, doesn't it?
[Pre-Chorus]
I get this feeling
I hate this feeling
I start to feel like
[Chorus]
I speak so well but you don't hear me
I might wreak hell so don't come near me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
Touch my skin but you don't feel me
I blend right in so you don't kill me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
[Bridge]
I'm pretending
Only acting
You don't know me
[Chorus]
I speak so well but you don't hear me
I might wreak hell so don't come near me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
Touch my skin but you don't feel me
I blend right in so you don't kill me
I'm a stranger, I'm a stranger
Strangers was written by Troi Irons.
Strangers was produced by Devrim Karaoğlu & Troi Irons.