Your eyes, so crisp, so green
Sour apple baby, but you taste so sweet
You got hips like Jagger and two left feet
And I wonder if you'd like to meet
Your voice is velvet through a telephone
You can come to mine, but both my roommates are home
Think I know a bar where they would leave us alone
And I wonder if you'd take it slow
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, we're dancin' in my living room, and up come my fists
And I say I'm only playing, but the truth is this
That I've never seen a mouth that I would kill to kiss
And I'm terrified, but I can't resist
And I said
[Chorus]
Beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms and I know
That beautiful strangers only come along to do me wrong
And I hope, beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms
But I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally, finally safe
For me to fall
[Post-Chorus]
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
I grab your hand and then we run to the car
Singing in the street and playing air guitar
Stuck between my teeth just like a candy bar
And I wonder if it goes too far to say
I've never recognized a purer face
You stopped me in my tracks and put me right in my place
Used to think that loving meant a painful chase
But you're right here now and I think you'll stay
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, we're dancin' in my living room, and up come my fists
And I say I'm only playing, but the truth is this
I've never seen a mouth that I would kill to kiss
And I'm terrified, but the truth is this
I said
[Chorus]
Beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms and I know
That beautiful strangers only come along to do me wrong
And I hope, beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms
And I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally, finally safe
For me to fall
[Post-Chorus]
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Yeah, I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally
About
Following on from “clementine,” Halsey released “Finally // beautiful stranger” alongside “SUGA’s Interlude” as the fourth installment of Manic.
The track narrates her first meeting with future boyfriend and collaborator YUNGBLUD (the pair had broken up by the time the song was released). Whilst promoting their single “11 Minutes” in February 2019, the pair talked about the day they first met, with Halsey telling 97.1 AMP Radio:
I hit him up and was like ‘Do you wanna go have some drinks?’ […] We met up at a bar, total stranger, I’ve never met him before.
When previewing the track for fans at a private event in London, Halsey introduced the song with:
What comes next is the first love song that I’ve ever written.
She went on to tell Zane Lowe in January 2020:
I was dating Dom (YUNGBLUD)… I was really happy! Was really happy with my life. I was thinking about the night that he and I met […] I really just wrote it for him.
Q&A
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I was like, ‘I need a wedding song. I need a first dance song.’ I wrote it at home in my living room at two in the morning when I was dating Dom. I’d been thinking about the night we met—I had told the story so many times and every time it got more romantic—and realized I’d never written a love song before, not one without a punchline. And it’s just a very nice, sweet song. At first, I was kind of like, eh… It wasn’t crazy enough. But I sent it to a couple friends, who said it was the best song I’d ever written. I was like, ‘What? It’s just me and a guitar.��� And they were like, ‘Yeah, that’s the point.’
– Halsey, via Apple Music
Yes there is!
Halsey performed it live on Saturday Night Live on January 25, 2020.
- 1.Ashley
- 2.clementine
- 3.Graveyard
- 8.3am
- 9.Without Me
- 10.Finally // beautiful stranger
- 12.killing boys
- 13.SUGA’s Interlude
- 14.More
- 15.Still Learning
- 16.929
- 17.I’m Not Mad