► “Finally // Beautiful Stranger” is a song by American singer Halsey. It was released on December 6, 2019 as the second promotional single from her third studio album, Manic (2020). The song was released simultaneously with the album’s third promotional single, “Suga’s Interlude”.
► Halsey described both songs as “very different … very dreamy stories.” She revealed in an interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 that she wrote it at home in her living room at “two in the morning when I was dating Dom (YUNGBLUD)”, thinking about the night that they met, written with just her voice and a guitar at first. She said that, after listening, her friends described it as “the best song I’d ever written”.
► Finally // beautiful stranger – HALSEY – Lyrics:
Your eyes, so crystal 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
Oh, we’re dancing 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 say
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
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
Oh, we’re dancing 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 say
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
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Yeah, I think it’s finally
Finally, finally, finally
