True Blood

Album: The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2 (2013)
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  • This horror-themed track finds JT crooning about a girl (or possibly a ghoul) on the prowl. He declares of the mystery woman, "Those girls wanna burn with me, but they don't hold a candle." At 9 minutes, 31 seconds, this is the longest song on The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 (excluding album closer "Not A Bad Thing", whose epic 11:28 length also includes a hidden track). The average length track on the album is over six and a half minutes minutes long and the LP clocks in at a huge 74 minutes and 28 seconds in total.

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