I Know Him So Well Lyrics

Lyric discussion by robin11648 

Cover art for I Know Him So Well lyrics by Barbara Dickson

The singer seems to have a split personality in this song, until you realise: this song is two women singing about the same man. One is his wife, the other is his mistress.

The song is from the musical Chess. It is sung by Svetlana and Florence about Anatoly. Svetlana is his wife, and Florence is his mistress. Each thinks he is going to leave her for the other.

So Florence sings "He needs security", and Svetlana sings "He needs his fantasy and freedom".