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Better When You're Strange

from Habitual Salvation by Nick Zaino

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Better When You’re Strange

I like you better when you’re strange
Your eyes flash and the colors change
Feels like when you’re with me
You’re someone no one else can see

I like you better when you’re strange
You give me something I can taste
But when you hang around those boys
Your charm goes to waste

I don’t just want you for the things they do
But hell, I want you for those things, too
I just want to help you fit into
To a shape that feels like you
You like Picasso and old man bars
I like my comic books and cheap guitars
I’m not saying that we’re writ in the stars
But we fit in all my favorite parts

I like you better when you’re strange
When you’re breaking down the gates
When you’re dancing on their front lawn
In your suspenders and a cape

Don’t keep me waiting
Come out and play

I like you better when you’re strange
Oh, when you’re something short of sane
Whatever’s twirling in your brain
Makes me want to know your name

I don’t just want you for the things they do
Unless you want me for those things, too
And I could love every part of you
And never have to stop and think it through
You like turtle wax and shaving scars
I like jelly from a mason jar
Nothing about you is too bizarre
To ever keep us apart

I like you better when you’re strange
Your eyes flash and the colors change
Feels like when you’re with me
You’re someone no one else can see

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from Habitual Salvation, released November 29, 2019
Nick Zaino - guitar and vocals.

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Nick Zaino Boston, Massachusetts

Nick Zaino is a Boston-based Americana musician, podcaster, and journalist. He has released two full-length albums, Blue Skies and Broken Arrows and Habitual Salvation, two EPs, and is working on a few singles to release soon.

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