Personally, I've always related this song to my own situation, and hoped that Ian encountered a similar situation, and wrote this song about it.
"I bet he likes you more than he likes me
‘Cause I’m the former one
He’s the latter one
He’d never say it but its right
Sorry, that was rude of me, forget I said a thing"
I believe those lines could be about his ex moving onto a close friend of his... then again, they could just be written that way for catchiness. The rest is pretty obvious, I think, but still brilliantly poetic.
So, I agree with 'blanklove'. I'm glad I'm not the only one to interpret it that way.
Personally, I've always related this song to my own situation, and hoped that Ian encountered a similar situation, and wrote this song about it.
"I bet he likes you more than he likes me ‘Cause I’m the former one He’s the latter one He’d never say it but its right Sorry, that was rude of me, forget I said a thing"
I believe those lines could be about his ex moving onto a close friend of his... then again, they could just be written that way for catchiness. The rest is pretty obvious, I think, but still brilliantly poetic.
So, I agree with 'blanklove'. I'm glad I'm not the only one to interpret it that way.