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I know you
You think I don't but I do
I've been listening and I don't forget so I can do this
I can pass the test
You went to school in Chicago
Your mom's maiden name is Dupree
Your favorite actor is DeNiro
Your birthday's 03/08/83
C-H-I-C-A-G-O
D-U-P-R-E-E
D-E-N-I-R-O
I know you
You think it's weird but it's not
You're all looking at it all upside down
It actually means I really love you
You used have a dog called Montey
You only drink chardonnay
Your sister's pet name is CeeCee
You have a thing for David Blaine
M-O-N-T-E-Y
C-H-A-R-D-O-N-N-A-Y
C-E-E-C-E-E
And I know you
I know you
You think I'm blind but I'm not
I've been watching and what I've noticed is distraction,
Boredom and vacancy
I know your favorite dish (P-R-I-M-A V-E-R-A)
I know your favorite band (Polyphonic S-P-R-E-E)
You spent a year in Barcelona (B-A-R-C-E-L-O-N-A)
That asshole's name was Anthony
Turns out you never went to T-U-L-S-A
To see your old roommate J-A-N-E
I think my middle name is S-U-C-K-E-R
And I was born yesterday
I don't know you
I thought I did but I don't
I wasn't listening, not to the right things
One day I won't even remember your face
You think I don't but I do
I've been listening and I don't forget so I can do this
I can pass the test
You went to school in Chicago
Your mom's maiden name is Dupree
Your favorite actor is DeNiro
Your birthday's 03/08/83
C-H-I-C-A-G-O
D-U-P-R-E-E
D-E-N-I-R-O
I know you
You think it's weird but it's not
You're all looking at it all upside down
It actually means I really love you
You used have a dog called Montey
You only drink chardonnay
Your sister's pet name is CeeCee
You have a thing for David Blaine
M-O-N-T-E-Y
C-H-A-R-D-O-N-N-A-Y
C-E-E-C-E-E
And I know you
I know you
You think I'm blind but I'm not
I've been watching and what I've noticed is distraction,
Boredom and vacancy
I know your favorite dish (P-R-I-M-A V-E-R-A)
I know your favorite band (Polyphonic S-P-R-E-E)
You spent a year in Barcelona (B-A-R-C-E-L-O-N-A)
That asshole's name was Anthony
Turns out you never went to T-U-L-S-A
To see your old roommate J-A-N-E
I think my middle name is S-U-C-K-E-R
And I was born yesterday
I don't know you
I thought I did but I don't
I wasn't listening, not to the right things
One day I won't even remember your face
Lyrics submitted by thiagozero
Track duration: 05:21
"Password" as written by Benjamin Scott/hornby Folds
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The narrator in the song is her computer, or else its Google. Google/ her PC know all this stuff about her cos she entered it as her password for various stuff. like when a website asks you to answer a security question like "who was your first pet" etc etc.
So its a song about all the personal information we give to total strangers.
The bit I dont understand is the last verse where the computer/ google changes its mind and says "I dont know you, I thought I did but I dont".
Anthony is the boyfriend. The narrator has convinced himself out of desperation and desire that Anthony is an asshole and isn't treating her right. He believes she's bored with him and that she will be leaving him any day now. His observations on their relationship are very biased - he WANTS their relationship to fail - so it's hard to know, via this unreliable narrator, whether their relationship really is unstable at all. As a user above said, it appears her password was Anthony (as that seems to be the last thing he guessed) so that could be a clue that their relationship is in fact plenty happy.
He seems to be trying to break into her computer, perhaps after breaking into her house. He's trying to guess her password by typing in all the things he knows about her. He looks at it as a test ("I can pass the test") of his knowledge of her, to prove - to himself more than anyone else - that he loves her. He is successful and he learns a secret about her - that, when she claimed to be in Tulsa visiting Jane, she was actually elsewhere doing who knows what - which shocks the narrator into realizing that you can't really "know" somebody just by listening in on their life...there's a whole other side to her that he couldn't possibly have known about via his observations.
This is just what I always thought. The idea that the narrator is the girl's boyfriend seems likely as well. It did puzzle me that the revelation about Tulsa comes off as a betrayal - you can't betray someone you don't have a relationship with, so that's a clue that maybe the girl and the narrator are closer than I originally thought. Maybe this is the couple from "You Don't Know Me" :P
The song puts us in the middle of a couple fighting. The man has his suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating and takes her computer and uses things he knows about her to try and guess the password to her (email?).
Shes mad about it but he only feels jealous/compelled to force his way into her private email because he "loves" her.
She insists that nothing is wrong but the singer says hes noticed things arn't right there is "distraction, boredom and vacancy".
He eventually cracks the password and discovers that she lied about a trip away to see a girlfriend and was cheating.
He realises he was too busy paying attention and listening to hear to see the signs sooner but he knows he wont be hung over her forever.