Liz Phair

You Should Know Me

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Not supposed to talk about it
Analyze it
We should be there together
With our hearts in our hands
We should feel it, come together
Like the wave meets the sand

Well, you should know me
Better than that

Not supposed to try and move in
To dive in
We should meet there together
At our pace with our plan
On dry land, clement weather
So we both understand

Well, you should know me
Better than that

(I get down)
I get up
(I get angry, I get sad)
I get angry, I get sad
Well, I get even a little misty
When I think of what we had

But you're building a dam where our lives should be
And you're lying on top of the beauty
And your closing eyes turn away from me
Refusing to see who I am

Well, you should know me
Better than that
You should know me
Better than that
You should know me
Better than that

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by 3-65-7-50

12y ago

I was flittering through Liz Phair songs, when I stumbled on this one and I genuinely thought it must have been a B-side or an out-take from the Exile era. THIS is the old Liz Phair. A relationship where two people are supposed to collaborate and organically arrive on the same page at the same time -- something that Liz Phair has warned she can't do and never promised from day one. Her veiled antagonism and rebellion quietly gleams out in the song when she pauses on "I get even." Very simply, it's about someone not listening to her words and being obtuse about her actions: "[...] refusing to see who I am."

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by eigenv1

11y ago

One of Liz's better written songs. Love the references to water throughout and the lines

But you're building a dam where our lives should be and you're lying on top of the beauty.

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