Cheated On Me

This is a really deep song. You can tell by the heavy chords dragging in the beginning that he's "lovesick" -- it gives an idea of unrest. In the first verse he is just presenting the idea, that he knows she is unfaithful. He's putting it all on the table.

The second verse I really love. I loved it the first time I heard it because I took it as a real self-defense mechanism that Gavin used. "I've been this lovesick before I've felt just like this before There was another just like you I loved it for so long" He is making sure she knows that she isn't the first one to break his heart, but he isn't trying to be emo about it, he's trying to assure her that just as he found a replacement for the last relationship he had, he can find a replacement for her. He is capable of doing it -- so to present the threat, it gives him a little power. It is kind of a typical male trait that I think is really interesting in the song.

Perhaps in the bridge he is suggesting that he suspected her of cheating before, but he "left an open door" by not acting on it. He also doubts himself, because, remember - throughout the whole song he is merely pointing fingers, "i THINK you cheated on me"...he is never really blaming her, but presenting the idea so she can admit it herself. By the beginning of the song, til the end, he makes this transition from blaming her to blaming himself, "I drove you off and into someone else's arms".