"Strangers & Thieves" (Track Commentary)

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Jesse shares the story behind his track, "Strangers & Thieves," feat. Billie Joe Armstrong, from the 2019 album, Sunset Kids, produced by Lucinda Williams and Tom Overby.
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Lyrics:
We were strangers and thieves
Leaving tags and graffiti smoke screens
Stealing candy from arcades
What the hell we were only fifteen
Walk on from a place we never came from
Walk on and listen to no one
I been thinking bout you lately
I'm lost and I'm lonely in the tenements of life
I never really had a family
It's alright, I really could use a friend
Looking back on a fanzine
From warehouse wars to bedroom communities
Burning down the arcade
Urban gardens and homesick holidays
Walk on from a place we never came from
Walk on and answer to no one
I've been thinking bout you lately
I'm lost and I'm lonely in the tenements of life
I never really had a family
It's alright, I really could use a friend
We were strangers and thieves
Dancing in the house of conspiracy
We were nervous energy
Suburban noise and tenement pipe dreams
I've been thinking bout you lately
I'm lost and I'm lonely in the tenements of life
I never really had a family
I been thinking bout you lately
It's alright, I really could use a friend
Robbin' banks in America, robbin' banks in American time