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Somebody That I Used To Know

Written and Performed by Gotye featuring Kimbra
What do you think the speaker means in each sentence? One example is done for you.

a. Now and then I think of when we were together. He is saying that he sometimes
thinks of the romantic relationship
they had.
b. Like when you said you felt so happy you could die.

c. Told myself that you were right for me.

d. But felt so lonely in your company.

e. But that was love and it's an ache I still remember.

f. You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness.

g. Like resignation to the end, always the end.

h. So when we found that we could not make sense.

i. Well you said that we would still be friends.

j. But I'll admit that I was glad it was over.

VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS

Match the definitions below with the vocabulary in italics in the sentences from a to j above.

1. idiom used when you want to express extreme pleasure 6. a physical or emotional pain
about something
7. feeling of unhappiness because one is on their own
2. to unwillingly agree that something is true

8. to continue being friends

3. sometimes but not often

9. synonym to surrender
4. to have a clear meaning

10. to become dependent on something

5. synonym to suitable

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