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Strange Loop Lyrics by Paul Dempsey

Strange Loop

2016

[Intro - woman speaking over P.A. system]
(Garbled)...no smoking in the building, and no flash photography during the presentation. The greatest adventure humankind has ever experienced! If you need to leave this show at any time, please do so by using the exit doors at the back of the theatre

Now, if you weren't such a sucker
For finishing everything you started up
And if I weren't beside myself
There'd be just the two of us
But I made the gruesome discovery
That everybody else was right about me
And now the whistle has been blown
I've been diagnosed
With a heart that's a known unknown

[Chorus]
So tell me, baby, what's so good
About bein' understood?
I would be terrified if I could read your mind
And the real me you couldn't even identify
So this is what you get
This is what you get

Now, I can't wait
There's so much I don't wanna tell you
And there's so much that you don't want me to see
And darling, there's so much you'd like to change
If you were me
But if you were me, I'd give me a piece of your mind
A self-portrait peerin' out through the polygraph lines
Now, there's no photogenic feelings, no rich inner life
Just a strange loop
And I'm once, twice, a thousand times removed

[Chorus]
So tell me, baby, what's so good
About feelin' understood?
Now, my time might be a joke, but it never gets old
And my true self was beyond help long ago
So this is what you get
This is what you get
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh

Now, if you weren't such a sucker
For being there when I need you

I would be terrified
If I could read your mind
So tell me, baby, what's so good
About feeling understood?
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Paul Dempsey

Paul Dempsey

About “Strange Loop” by Paul Dempsey

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"Strange Loop" is credited to Paul Dempsey. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Strange Loop" appears on "Strange Loop" in 2016.

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