Strange

from I Wanna Destroy You / Near The Soft Boys by The Soft Boys

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lyrics

And I go downstairs the candle throws a shadow over me
And when I get downstairs I pass the place she always used to be
And it's strange how no one else can see
Strange, no one else but me

And when I kiss her mouth I raise the lid and lower it again
And when I kiss her mouth I never cry, I'm just like other men
But it's strange how no one else can see
Strange, no one else but me

And so she lies there in the freezer looking elegant and tall
Oh, she could lie there for a century and never change at all
And it's strange, how no one else can see
Strange, no one else but me
No one else but me

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from I Wanna Destroy You / Near The Soft Boys, released October 2, 2020

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The Soft Boys Cambridge, UK

The Soft Boys were a rock band led by Robyn Hitchcock primarily during the 1970s whose initially old-fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight.

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