We've Never Met

Forgotten Love: Neko Case's Heartrending Tale of Lost Connection
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Lyrics

Oh my darling

Expressing endearment or affection towards the person addressed.

Oh my darling

Repetition emphasizes the emotional connection.

How can you forget?

Questioning how the person can forget something significant.

All the love we had between us

Reflecting on the love that once existed between the speaker and the person addressed.

Now it's like we'd never met

Expressing the feeling that the connection has now vanished, as if they never met.


Oh it kills me

Highlighting emotional pain and its intensity.

How it kills me

Reiterating the emotional impact, emphasizing the depth of the speaker's feelings.

When I think how I held you up

Regretting the role the speaker played, feeling hurt by memories of supporting the person addressed.

You were golden, I was blind

Describing the person addressed as special ("golden") and acknowledging the speaker's past blindness to certain issues.

With your poison in my blood

Referring to a toxic influence from the past relationship.


Bittersweet are the memories

Describing memories as both sweet and painful, capturing the complexity of past love.

That make young lovers pine

Expressing the common experience of yearning in young lovers.

But I'd trade all the memories

Willing to sacrifice all memories for the sake of having the person's heart in the present.

Just to have your heart in mine


Everybody's talking to me

Expressing the disappearance of the person addressed from the speaker's life.

But they just can't explain

Observing a change in the world after the person's departure.

You disappeared from all the pages, now nothing seems the same

Recalling a time when the speaker believed they knew the person addressed, but now facing a different reality.

There was a time I thought I knew you, when I looked you in the eye

Noticing a lack of connection as reflected in the eyes of the person addressed.

Now the same eyes look right through me

Highlighting the emotional distance, with the person being indifferent to the speaker's emotions.

You're too cool to see me cry


Bittersweet are the memories

Reiterating the theme of longing and nostalgia in memories.

That make young lovers pine

Expressing the desire to exchange all memories for a current connection with the person.

But I'd trade all the memories

Just to have your heart in mine

Repetition for emphasis on the speaker's yearning for the person's heart in the present.


Oh my darling

Repetition of endearment, addressing the person with affection.

Oh my darling

Reinforcing the emotional connection through repetition.

How can you forget?

Repeating the question of how the person can forget.

All the love we had between us

Recalling the lost love between the speaker and the person addressed.

Now it's like we'd never met

Expressing the sense of total estrangement, as if the meeting never occurred.


You were golden, I was blind

Recalling the special nature of the person addressed and the speaker's past lack of awareness.

Now it's like we'd never met

Reiterating the feeling of complete separation, as if the past connection never existed.

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