You Don't Know Me

Album: Way To Normal (2008)
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  • I wanna ask you
    Do you ever sit and wonder,
    It's so strange
    That we could be together for
    So long, and never know, never care
    What goes on in the other one's head?

    Things I've felt but I've never said
    You said things that I never said
    So I'll say something that I should have said long ago:

    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all
    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all (at all)

    You could have just propped me up on the table like a mannequin
    Or a cardboard stand-up and paint me (paint me)
    Any face that you wanted me
    To be seen.
    We're
    Damned by the existential moment where
    We saw the couple in the coma and
    It was we were the cliche,
    But we carried on anyway.

    So, sure, I could just close my eyes.
    Yeah, sure, trace and memorize,
    But can you go back once you know

    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all
    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all (at all)

    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all
    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all (at all)

    If I'm the person that you think I am
    Clueless chump you seem to think I am
    So easily led astray,
    An errant dog who occasionally escapes and needs a shorter leash, then
    Why the fuck would you want me back?!

    Maybe it's because

    (You don't know me at all)

    (You don't know me,
    you don't know me.)

    So, what I'm trying to say is
    What (What?)
    I'm trying to tell you
    It's not gonna come out like I wanna say it cause I know you'll only change it.
    (Say it.)

    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all
    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all (at all)

    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all
    (You don't know me)
    You don't know me at all (at all)

    What? Writer/s: BEN FOLDS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, O/B/O DistroKid, Third Side Music Inc., TuneCore Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Calios from Perth, Australiavery easy song meaning. basically youre in a realtionship, and truth is, unless you are a mind reader, you do not know exactly what the other person is thinking.
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