“Strange For Love” by Freedom Fry – A Song Feature

 

     At the start of “Strange For Love,” the guitar riff and the rhythm cultivate a sense of forward movement. That sense is in sharp contrast to the lyrics that follow. The song from Freedom Fry is about stagnation in the ability to build a relationship and trying to understand the reason. Simply, “Am I too strange for love?”
 
     “Strange For Love” is lyrically intelligent, even when borrowing the line of the Johnny Lee song about “looking for love in all the wrong places.” Among the theories is the possibility that the inability to find love is the result of a curse from the devil. Whatever the reason, it’s not from lack of want:

I had my chances

I had a plan

But it all went up in smoke

And here I stand before you broken

 

Now I get to thinking

That I’m meant to be alone

And I'm too strange for love

Strange for love

 
     An interesting aspect of the single from Freedom Fry is the vocal linger on the third-from-final syllable in certain lines. As an example, there is vocal linger for both occurrences of the work “wrong” in the first verse. It is also interesting that an instrument is introduced in a manner that builds an expectation that an instrumental portion of the song is being initiated, but only four notes are played before the vocals are back into the focus of “Strange For Love.” The first of the four notes is heard at the 2:37 mark.
 
     Freedom Fry is the French/American duo of Marie Seyrat and Bruce Driscol. They are based in Los Angeles. “Strange For Love” is the title song from the duo’s three-track EP.
 
     “Strange For Love” by Freedom Fry

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Lyrics of “Strange For Love” by Freedom Fry
Sometimes I get the feeling
I've been looking for love in all the wrong places
And everybody’s saying
It’s my fault for getting hung up on the wrong faces
 
I had my chances
I had a plan
But it all went up in smoke
And here I stand before you broken
 
Now I get to thinking
That I’m meant to be alone
And I'm too strange for love
Strange for love
 
Take me as I am
Yeah, take me as I come
I've been down this lonely road
For so long, so long
Maybe I'm too troubled
Maybe I'm just unlovable
Or maybe I'm too strange
Strange for love
 
Why does it come easier
For everybody else to find someone who cares?
Could it be some devil put a curse upon my head
And left me standing there?
 
I get defensive
I had high hopes
But they all went up in smoke
Yeah, I feel like I'm choking
 
Now I get to drinking
Is this my destiny?
Am I too strange for love
Strange for love?
 
Take me as I am
Yeah, take me as I come
I've been down this lonely road
For so long, so long
Maybe I'm too troubled
Maybe I'm just unlovable
Or maybe I'm too strange
Strange for love
 
Strange for love
Strange for love
 
Take me as I am
Yeah, take me as I come
I've been down this lonely road
For so long, so long
Maybe I'm too troubled
Maybe I'm just unlovable
Or maybe I'm too strange
Strange for love
[Repeat]
 
Strange for love
Strange for love