Health Activist Choice Day 2! - #HAWMC Day 23

Health Activist Choice Day 2! Write about whatever you like.

I hear this song all the time and I love it.  I decided to talk about the lyrics.  The reason I like the song so much is that we have all had someone that hurt us whether it was a loved one or a friend.  When the relationship goes bad sometimes it goes so bad that it just ends and one person never knows quite why.  That person is left hanging.  I had a really good friend once. She was a really good friend in college and after college.  She had a really rough time with life.  I kept in there being her friend through rehab twice.  Then all of a sudden one day she stopped picking up the phone when I called.  She stopped sending birthday cards.  She stopped calling, writing, everything.  No explanation.  No reason.  I left messages saying if I had done anything, I apologize and that I loved her no matter what.  Nothing. To this day I don't know what happened.  If I did anything or said anything.  I will probably never know and I am not sure I will ever get over it.  I know this song is about lovers who  break up but when I hear the line "Now you're somebody I just used to know", it makes me think of her, my friend.

Somebody That I Used To Know

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kinda sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing
I don't even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough

No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
Guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believin it was always something that I'd done

But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know-oh-oh

But you didn't have cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing (oh)
I don't even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger
and that feels so rough

(oh)

No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect you records
And then change your number (oh)
Guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Somebody that I used to know
Somebody (now your just somebody that I used to know)
That I used to know
Somebody that I used to know
Somebody (somebody) (now your just somebody that I used to know)
That I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know
I used to know
Somebody

Here is the video of Gotye singing the song live. 

 

Until tomorrow...

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