Ethel Cain – Strangers Lyrics

 

Strangers Lyrics by Ethel Cain

 

In your basement, I grow cold
Thinking back to what I was always told
Don’t talk to strangers or you might fall in love
Freezer bride, your sweet divine
You devour like smoked bovine hide
How funny, I never considered myself tough

You’re so handsome, walking over to me now

I tried to be good
Am I no good
Am I no good
Am I no good
With my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
I just wanted to be yours
Can I be yours
Can I be yours
Just tell me I’m yours
If I’m turning in your stomach and I’m making you feel sick

When my mother sees me on the side
Of a milk carton in winn-dixie’s dairy aisle
She’ll cry and wait up for me
We’ll make love in your attic all night
Euphoric in some strange delight
I’m happier here cause he told me I should be

You’re so handsome when I’m all over your mouth

I tried to be good
Am I no good
Am I no good
Am I no good
With my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
I just wanted to be yours
Can I be yours
Can I be yours
Just tell me I’m yours
If I’m turning in your stomach and I’m making you feel sick

Am I making you feel sick
Am I making you feel, am I making you feel sick
Am I making you feel, am I making you feel sick
Am I making you feel sick
Am I making you feel sick
Am I making you feel sick

Found you just to tell you that I made it real far
And that I never blamed you for loving me the way that you did while you were torn apart
I would still wait with you there
Don’t think about it too hard
Or you’ll never sleep a wink at night again
Don’t worry ‘bout me and these green eyes
Mama, just know that I love you (I do)
And I’ll see you when you get here