GLEE’s rendition of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”

While Gotye‘s song is about lovers, Glee’s producers were able to reframe it as a song sung between two brothers. I will fully admit that my relationship with my brothers has been always amazing. We have always been the best of friends. So I really can’t relate myself to the way in which the song is framed here. But I did get tears in my eyes when I listened to it and watched the video.

Some information from the Glee wiki page on this song:

Somebody That I Used To Know is a song originally sung by Australian Gotye and New Zealander Kimbra that is featured in Big Brother, the fifteenth episode of the third season. It is sung by Blaine and his older brother, Cooper. The performance is the final song in the episode where Blaine and Cooper finally make up after the song in the auditorium.

Lyrics:

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I’ll admit that I was glad it was over

But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

Now you’re just somebody that I used to know
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
Part of me believing it was always something that I’d done
But I don’t wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn’t catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

[Gotye:]
But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
And you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

[x2]
Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you’re just somebody that I used to know)

(I used to know)
(That I used to know)
(I used to know)
Somebody