Songfacts®:

• In this wistful country tune, George Jones has buried the memory of the girl who broke his heart, but that metaphorical door gets battered down when he gets a letter from her saying she never forgot about him. She asks to meet him at their old haunt, and signs it, "someone that you used to know."
  
  We don't know if Jones takes her up on the offer, but by now he knows that things can never be like the once were.
• This song was written by two formidable songwriters: Bobby Whitlock and Jack Tempchin. Whitlock was the keyboard player in Derek & the Dominos; he co-wrote songs like "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad." Tempchin is best known for songs recorded by the Eagles, including "Already Gone" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling."
  
  Speaking on the Songfacts Podcast, Tempchin explained: "After we got done writing the song, sitting around my kitchen table, we said, 'This would be perfect for George Jones!' Of course, any song that you wrote that was a country song you felt would be perfect for the greatest country singer of all time, George Jones. And then later, somehow he got a hold of that song and recorded it. I never found out how he even got it."