Somebody That I Used to Know
Gotye (4FRNT Remix) Lyrics

Now and then I think of when we were together
Occasionally, I recall the time we spent as a couple

Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I reminisce about when you told me how happy I made you feel

Told myself that you were right for me
I convinced myself that you were the perfect partner for me

But felt so lonely in your company
However, I often felt lonely even when we were together

But that was love and it's an ache I still remember
I realize now that those feelings of love and loneliness are still with me

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
It's possible to become addicted to a specific type of sadness

Like resignation to the end, always the end
The end of our relationship was inevitable, and I had resigned myself to it

So when we found that we could not make sense
When we realized that we couldn't resolve our problems

Well you said that we would still be friends
You suggested that we could maintain our friendship

But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over
But, if I'm being honest, I was relieved when it ended

But you didn't have to cut me off
You could have ended things differently than completely walking away from me

Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
You made it seem like we never had any connection at all and our memories together were meaningless

And I don't even need your love
I don't require your love anymore

But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
However, the way you treat me now as if we never had a shared past hurts me deeply

No you didn't have to stoop so low
You didn't need to act so heartlessly towards me, it was unnecessary

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
You even went to the lengths of having someone else collect your possessions, and you changed your number so I couldn't contact you

I guess that I don't need that though
Though, in retrospect, I understand that I don't need that kind of negativity in my life

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now that it's all over, you're just someone I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
At times, I think about all the times you did me wrong

But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
Even though it was your fault, you often made me believe that it was my own

And I don't wanna live that way
I don't want to live in a relationship where I'm always being blamed for things that aren't my fault

Reading into every word you say
I don't want to overanalyze every little thing that you say

You said that you could let it go
You suggested that you could move past our issues

And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know
And I wouldn't find that you were still clinging to someone you used to know

Somebody, I used to know
Someone that we both knew

(Somebody) Now you're just somebody that I used to know
But now you're just another person that I used to have a relationship with

I used to know, that I used to know, I used to know somebody
It's a shame to think that I used to be involved with someone who ended up treating me so poorly