Songfacts®:

• Maddie and Tae both got married within a space of a few months. Maddie tied the knot with Jonah Font in late 2019, and Tae wed Josh Kerr in early 2020. This piano ballad finds them reflecting on how their love for their husbands has turned their lives around.
  
  You're the first call I make when the sky falls
  You're the hand that I'm holding when it's blue
  
  Such is their emotional closeness, they feel like they've known their significant others forever.
  
  I'll never be convinced, baby, that you weren't always here
  How were we ever strangers?
• Maddie and her chef husband both grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, but only met later in life. After having a conversation where they marveled at how wild that was, Maddie spotted the idea for a song.
  
  "He just was thinking of the time in our lives when we didn't know each other," she told Apple Music. "We were complete strangers, had no idea that the other one existed. We were thinking about our lives without each other and how impossible that feels now."
• Maddie & Tae co-wrote the sweet track with Nashville songwriter Jimmy Robbins and fellow country artist Adam Hambrick.
• Jimmy Robbins aloo co-produced the track with Derek Wells. The musicians are:
  
  Electric Guitar: Derek Wells and Kris Donegan
  Acoustic Guitar: Bryan Sutton
  Bass: Tony Lucido
  Drums: Evan Hutchings
  Keyboards: David Dorn
• Maddie & Tae recorded the touching song for Through the Madness, Vol. 1. It's one of several tracks on the EP where they mined their marriages for songwriting inspiration. "Strangers" was one of the first songs they penned for the record.