Tekst piosenki
Happy birthday, thanks for the Valium
And thank you for the stack of dirty magazines
We lounged around, debated Nietzsche
I was too obtuse to get how much I need ya
Parasitic fishes down in the sea
Now we’re history
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
I was Nancy, you were vicious, uh-huh
Now I’m not sure I even miss us, uh-huh
If I sang you a song
Would you still sing along?
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
Every night’s your birthday, got shows back to back
Excuse to celebrate a brighter, lighter, a louder stack
Hand on the burner, cracking the skull
Is it still hedonism if you’re feeling miserable?
Don’t want your songs to become the clues
To why we lost you
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
I was Nancy, you were vicious, uh-huh
Now I’m not sure I even miss us, uh-huh
If I sang you a song
Would you still sing along?
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
You tried to phone me up
I tried to write you once
But there was nothing to say
So I threw the page away
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
I was Nancy, you were vicious, uh-huh
Now I’m not sure I even miss us, uh-huh
If I sang you a song
Would you still sing along?
We might as well be strangers, uh-huh
Something came along and changed us, uh-huh
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W tle przewija się też temat zmian, które potrafią oddalić od siebie ludzi. Można odnieść wrażenie, że jedna z osób pogubiła się w świecie imprez, sukcesów albo własnych problemów, a druga patrzy na to z mieszanką smutku i rezygnacji. Nie ma tu jednak wyraźnej złości. Zamiast niej jest refleksja nad tym, jak łatwo bliscy sobie ludzie mogą stać się dla siebie niemal nieznajomymi. Najbardziej porusza moment, w którym pada pytanie, czy druga osoba wciąż zaśpiewałaby razem tę samą piosenkę. To pokazuje tęsknotę za dawną bliskością, choć jednocześnie pojawia się świadomość, że tamten czas prawdopodobnie już nie wróci.











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