Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dean Johnson - Perfect Stranger
from I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
Order: deanjohnson.scfm.me/friends

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CREDITS
Produced by Sera Cahoone
Recorded by Nich Wilbur and Johnny Sangster at Unknown Studio
Mixed by Johnny Sangster at Crackle & Pop
Mastered by Ed Brooks and Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering
Composed by Dean Johnson
Lyrics by Dean Johnson

Dean Johnson - Lead Vocals
Sera Cahoone - Drums, Percussion
Abbey Blackwell - Upright Bass
Sam Peterson - Electric Guitar, Mellotron, Hammond Organ


LYRICS
For some time I’d seen you ’round
Your feet they hardly touched the ground
Turning every head in town
Holding court with dulcet sound
You test your powers
Mmmm
You test your powers
Mmmm
Pretty stranger, pretty stranger
You got everybody thinkin’
That they have a chance
You can make it happen
With the slightest glance
Get everybody thinkin’
They’ve a pretty good chance
With the perfect stranger
Mmmm
Yes, we met eventually
Of course your powers worked on me
I saw the sunrise in your smile
Your eyes a wild and running child’s
But I was quickly drowning in shallow water
You had me drowning in shallow water
And I have this scar now
I have this scar
Pretty stranger, pretty stranger
Girl, I liked you better as a stranger
I wish we could go back to being strangers
Girl, I liked you better as a stranger
I wish we could go back
Yeah, I wish we could go back
I wish we could go back
To being strangers
Mmmm

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