Dawes - Still Strangers Sometimes ft Madison Cunningham & Mike Viola (Live Music Video)

Back with another performance live in the studio. This time with Mike Viola and Madison Cunningham lending us their superpowers to the 2nd single off our upcoming album 'Oh Brother', dropping October 11, 2024.

This one has already become a live show mainstay. Thanks for welcoming it into the club, everyone.

"A song about the spiritual investigation of long term relationships. How a part of ourselves will be unknowable forever, despite our deep connections and intimate understandings of each other." - Taylor Goldsmith

Thanks to all the fans who sang their hearts out for this one!

Editor: Robin Gonsalves

Follow Dawes:

Lyrics:
I was geared up for obscurity
Excited most specifically
About knowing you’d soon reach for me
And I’d be gone

You always took me to another place
Part childhood, part outer space
But the naked truth of our face-to-face
It’s just not what I want

‘Cause even when your body gets that close to mine
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes
And even as you claim that you can read my mind
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes

Love was supposed to help me find myself
Not just put me through this private hell
That gets worse each time I tell you
What feels wrong

Just a glimpse of what’s achievable
A sympathy unspeakable
Has left me a bit unreachable
For way too long

‘Cause even when your body gets that close to mine
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes
Even if you’re still my dr. Frankenstein
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes

You spend enough time with a mystery
Its powers start to atrophy
So if you can’t get to the heart of me
Let’s just walk away

Because even when your body gets that close to mine
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes
Even as we cross each other’s borderlines
We’re still strangers sometimes
We’re still strangers sometimes

[mattmichael]

Madison playing a Hoffner with Dawes🤯🤯🤯

[colejenkinsmusic]

Love seeing Mike playing with the band!

[Jdoe]

Great song - well recorded... Chorus is reminiscent of Foo Fighters to me. Love it crank it out in the car it sounds great

[geekko]

Everyday in my life since 2014. Thank you from Spain

[geoffschuller]

I loved this song the first time I heard you play it at The Mountain Winery last summer! The tapping intro is so cool, and I love how Griffin follows suit on the bell of the hat. So cool. Thanks for sharing!

[jesserivest]

Are those lego diffusers behind the drums?

[scottgoldstein]

So I know the bass player left, but is this a whole new band now? I don’t recognize anyone except for Taylor and his brother.