It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
'Cause there's something between us anyway

I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you

I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life


Lyrics submitted by Phoebe101

Something About Us Lyrics as written by Guy Manuel Homem Christo Thomas Bangalter

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, DAFT MUSIC

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    It REALLY hurts, doesn't it?. This song's lyrics are so simply, yet they couldn't go deeper. It fits so perfectly with the relationship that's been driving me mad for the last five and a half years. We would start kind of going out together, then we became the closest friends and then lovers...the thing is that even when we were apart for several reasons we never kind of forget about each other, because we were something different...We were never really a true couple but we would come and go...And I never really told my true feeling the way I should, the way this song describes them: we might not be right for each other, we might never work together...but why did we never close the door?. I've accepted he's the most important thing I ever had, still I just turn away because I am scared of being left alone again. I refused to say goodbye, but I know it's the only way I can be happy with someone else. And it's too painful. To love somebody so much - to have "something between you" - knowing that you have no future, to have so many feelings and being "incompatible" (in his own words :'( ).

    Gabigson February 07, 2006   Link

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