ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You

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No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house
Tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends
This is goodbye

Knowing me, knowing you (a-ha)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (a-ha)
We just have to face it
This time we're through
Breaking up is never easy, I know
But I have to go
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

Memories, good days, bad days
They'll be with me always
In these old familiar rooms
Children would play
Now there's only emptiness
Nothing to say

Knowing me, knowing you (a-ha)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (a-ha)
We just have to face it
This time we're through
Breaking up is never easy, I know
But I have to go
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

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Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae

Track duration: 04:02

"Knowing Me, Knowing You" as written by Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson, Aleksej Anatolevich Kortnev

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:The first 45 rpm record I ever bought. B side was Happy Hawaii. I was "hooked" on ABBA after that.
    Truly a classic, and it HAS to be about a break-up that can't be avoided.

    I hope that "One Man, One Woman" was the reconcilliation.
    Flag simfaithguitaron January 28, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Memory:Good tune. It's about stuff in your past that you'd like to forget about.
    Flag jumpy73on January 17, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This is a really sad song, yes. One of the saddest by mostly bubblegum ABBA. More than just a simple relationship, it must have been a marriage (or a very serious relationship). They lived together. They're singing about the empty house where children "would play" - thus a family was in the plans. Now it's all gone.
    Flag descendenton March 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Here's a different take for you. When this came out the civil war in Lebanon was at its height. The song just made me think of the different communities that use to live together, now locked in conflict, the mixture of rage and sorrow, incomprehension and yet knowing the others so well. Instead of an empty house, it was a wrecked country.
    Flag jimqukon July 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:For Bjorn's and Agnetha's divorce, I think you mean The Winner Takes It All. The Arrival album was released with this track, in 1976. Agnetha and Bjorn divorced in 1980.
    Flag priestpiloton February 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:frida became a princess an now lives in switzerland
    Flag isacon January 10, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I'm not sure if it's about a divorce
    Flag isacon January 10, 2007   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:I found this quote in the book 1000 UK Number One Hits by Jon Kutner & Spencer Leigh: "Bjorn has since denied that the lyrics had any bearing on his own situation. He claims, “Even if the roots are somewhere deep inside, from something that has happened to you, it’s still 90% fiction. I just work from images. I saw a man walking through an empty house for the last time as a symbol of divorce.”
    Flag edpon January 21, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Actually, this song is about Agnetha and Bjorn's divorce. Frida and Benny weren't even married yet.
    Flag Dimentiaon August 18, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:so sad song, about a relationship ending
    Flag Chamigaon April 18, 2005   Link

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