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Mistaken for Strangers

Song · 2007 · The National. Album: Boxer

Lost in the routine? 🏙️

Who it's for

The National capture young adults blending into routine and losing track of who they are.

Lost in routine→Reconnected

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What it is

"Mistaken for Strangers" is a song by the Brooklyn indie rock band The National, written by Matt Berninger and Scott Devendorf and released in 2007 as the first single from their album Boxer. Berninger has said many characters on Boxer are struggling, either trying to hold on and reconnect or trying to escape.

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Age: All ages

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1

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