The song's meaning is quite plain, but I still find it cute and a story delicately told.
Someone is talking to a friend, who has split up with his girlfriend (or wife). The girlfriend was cheating (or at least "lying" since the lyrics clearly say that he really should have let her go when she began to lie).
The writer is telling his friend "Good on ya" for putting up the good fight, for "hanging on and trying" (for trying to make the relationship work, for being honorable).
There's a part about how the bad girlfriend was making his friend change for the worse. He tells his friend that being in the relationship was dragging him down, making him somebody he wasn't. I think we have all experienced this. When you have a partner who is not being good to you, you may change your behavior in unpleasant ways to try to please and keep them. And meanwhile, you are not yourself and you alienate your friends.
("Lovin' that girl next thing you knew, you'd turned away from the thing you do")
Finally, there's encouragement. ", living without her gonna make you free" and
"Somewhere down the line You'll find her eventually "
In short: "Who needs her? There are plenty of fish in the sea. You'll find the right girl. Glad to have my friend back!"
The song's meaning is quite plain, but I still find it cute and a story delicately told.
Someone is talking to a friend, who has split up with his girlfriend (or wife). The girlfriend was cheating (or at least "lying" since the lyrics clearly say that he really should have let her go when she began to lie). The writer is telling his friend "Good on ya" for putting up the good fight, for "hanging on and trying" (for trying to make the relationship work, for being honorable).
There's a part about how the bad girlfriend was making his friend change for the worse. He tells his friend that being in the relationship was dragging him down, making him somebody he wasn't. I think we have all experienced this. When you have a partner who is not being good to you, you may change your behavior in unpleasant ways to try to please and keep them. And meanwhile, you are not yourself and you alienate your friends. ("Lovin' that girl next thing you knew, you'd turned away from the thing you do")
Finally, there's encouragement. ", living without her gonna make you free" and "Somewhere down the line You'll find her eventually "
In short: "Who needs her? There are plenty of fish in the sea. You'll find the right girl. Glad to have my friend back!"