Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

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Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
(Somebody) Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
(Somebody) Now you're just somebody that I used to know
I used to know, that I used to know, I used to know somebody

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Lyrics submitted by 60_miles_an_hour, edited by PoonKnows, Nemo123

Track duration: 04:05

"Somebody That I Used To Know" as written by Walter Andre De Backer

Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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    My Interpretation:this song represents adam and eve in the garden. thats why theirs paint. they are naked and than they are clothed and sense eve ate the apple she has knowledge prolly more know than adam.. adam remains clothed and eve doesnt.. she becomes naked again.. representing purity.. adam is still poisoned from the apple and has forgotten eve. eve tries to reminds adam that they are meant to be together but sense he is poisoned he doesnt see the same eve.. his eyes are deceiving him. so eve is basically saying.. hey well.. its me and too bad if you dont realize.. not trying to be bitter however.. this is why adam is suffering because he doesnt realize it is eve.. eve is being sarcastic when she is saying.. its somebody you used to know.. however sense satan is the father of all lies.. adam eyes are not open at all to eve.. they are closed.. and that is what the forbidden fruit does.. it doesnt open your eyes.. it closes them. adams eye are closed become he thinks eve has changed.. but she hasnt. he has.
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