| Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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So I'm just going to add my two cents here though I believe everyone's pretty much hit the nail on the head already, but I love this song too much to resist. This song makes me think about my ex boyfriend, we'd been best friends and then gotten together about two years ago; and called it quits - the relationship anyway - a little less than a year later. The difference though, is that though I completely agree with this being "two voices" and two perspectives; for me it'll always be a single person's emotions because they paint a picture that is uncannily similar to the one I lived/live and felt(feel?) and thus this song helps me relive that period in my life. It's true when I think back to when we were together, and the few periods where we were madly, insanely happy - periods where there was total contentment - I felt we were perfect for each other, but the constant fighting and inability to understand each other and where we came from; not to mention his inability to be there for me at times just made me feel so sad and alone but I believed I couldnt live without him and despite how sad I felt, I was addicted to the rush and the ache I felt from being around him and with him, from just seeing him smile at me. Eventually, after about the sixth time he called it quits, I screwed up the courage to end it the seventh time; though we agreed to stay best friends. Six months down the line, we had both mostly moved on - though we still fought - we had a blazing row and he cut me out of his life completely; treating me like a complete stranger. He removed all avenues of communication between us and distanced himself as much as he could. And it hurt. And now when I think back to our relationship I hate how badly he screwed me over, because he did, I hate him for making me feel like it was my fault and for throwing in my face that he could live without me because as it turned out, a few more months down the line, he couldnt and he wanted me back in his life; but I could never forget how he had treated me originally, and for me he would always be "somebody that I used to know." |
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| The Script – Breakeven Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's a song about this guy who treated a girl like shit and took her for granted so she finally wised up and broke up with him; and found someone better. And now he's miserable because he's just realizing how much he needed her: but now he's lost her and she's not coming back. I danced on this with my ex a week before we broke up :( Its an amazing amazing amazing song.. and what's really funny is, totally apt for us. He reminded me of it when I was with my then-boyfriend and followed it up by asking me out again and telling me really loved me. Didn't work. Sometimes too late is just too late. |
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| Gregory and the Hawk – I'm Your Puppet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In my opinion - an opinion which is shared by practically everyone who commented before me I think - this is about a relationship in which the girl is being used and she knows it, but she's with him cause she loves him anyway. The first stanza talks about how she feels like a 'puppet' because while she loves him he only wants the physical shit and she hates it, she wants to be with him properly but he only wants a physical relationship with her The second stanza talks about how their relationship is a secret because he wants it that way, and she loves him too much to fight over it because she knows he'll only be with her if its a secret and she'd rather be used like that than not be with him, so she'll help him 'sweep it beneath the carpet' She thinks its weak of him and wishes he cared enough about her. The third stanza is about how she's thinking of their relationship; and how she knows that he'll only grant her wishes if its convenient to him. She says that she knows if there are any problems and if she needs to depend on him he won't be there for her because it'll require something from him and she wishes she was worth more than that, thinking its so weak of him because he doesn't care about her. |
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| Gregory and the Hawk – Boats and Birds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I just think its about loving someone so much you'll do anything for them; but also knowing that the other way round isn't true. They won't do anything for you. |
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| Gregory and the Hawk – A Wish Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have been in this kind of relationship before and this song is absolutely perfect at capturing how I felt. The guy is using her and she knows it but she's still with him because she loves him. Guys are assholes sometimes. |
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| Mayday Parade – If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My ex-boyfriend sent this song to me. I thing this song is about a guy who takes this girl for granted; and he doesn't give her the only thing she wanted; which was to know that he cared. So she broke up with him and now he's miserable and so he just wants her to know that he did care and that he's miserable without her and misses her and wants her back and he also wants to know if she's as broken as he is. I think this song is brilliant, and so perfect for us. (unfortunately.) Except sometimes.. too late is just too late. |
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| The Script – Breakeven Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I absolutely LOVE this song, it's probably my favorite of all songs by The Script (with the possible exception of The Man Who Can't Be Moved. This is so like my relationship; it's like what people always skip over is the para where he goes "Her best days will be some of my worst, She finally met a man that's gonna put her first" and so they make the girl in the relationship out to be the bitch who just didn't give a shit and moved on. That's not how it is. I mean, for me; I was so sick of being in a relationship where I put in all the effort and put up with all the shit and felt so uncared for and unimportant that I just ended it and found somebody else. It doesn't mean it was easy for me or that I didn't love the guy. It just means that I grew sick of it and found someone who was willing to "put me first." And so I tried to move on and he's miserable or whatever - but the thing is; it wasn't my fault. So I guess you can see jealousy/sadness/self-anger and stuff in this song. Whatever it is, its a fucking brilliant song. |
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| U2 – Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm listening to this song as I type. I know that this song is about Bono's father, but I think it makes sense to me in another way too.. This song is very special to me, because it's My Song with my boyfriend. I dedicated this song to him when we were just friends too.. but on our way to becoming more :) It's just perfect for us. He's such a tough guy, thinking he can take on the world on his own and that he needs to be alone.. always forgetting that I'm going to force him to let me share his problems.. that I'm always going to be alongside. We're so alike in some ways (so different in others) that we're continuously fighting.. about anything and everything but it's okay at the end because we still love each other.. My favorite lines in this entire song are "Can you hear me when I sing? You're the reason I sing, You're the reason why the opera is in me.." I think it just describes me and him perfectly.. He is my muse, and my inspiration and the reason sometimes I get up to face the day. I absolutely love this song. |
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