The Killers: Somebody Told Me Meaning
Somebody Told Me Lyrics
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't...
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anonymous Dec 8th 2006, 16:00 report
The speaker in the song is hitting on a girl in a club. That's it. Let's Look at the lyrics:
"Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game"
He's been talking to the girl for what seems like 17 songs (it is a dance club) and she still won't even tell him her name (Believe me, I have BEEN there).
"But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss "
might mean that "heaven" , meaning his ultimate goal of sleeping with this girl, is not going to be achieved in a noisy dance club which is why he is trying to get to know her better and establish a repoire, so he can get her somewhere else, or perhaps he's just trying to get her number. "Anything goes but don't blink..." means that he's got to throw everthing he's got in his arsenal at her, she's sharp he has to keep on his toes to keep her from getting away.
"Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight "
"bring it back down" is sort of slang for "reel it in" or "close the deal"
"Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my..." She's confronted him with the 'ol "somebody told me you we a huge player..." line. This happens. you try and talk to a girl and suddenly some mysterious person as told her all sorts of bad stuff about you. Normally he can play it off but she's reall persistant with it and won't give him an inch.
"Well Sombodey told me that you had a boyfriend.." The "WELL" here his very important. It's sets the tone of the line as sarcastic. HE's responed to the aformentioned "player" accusation by saying some ridiculous rumor he suposedly heard about her. This is a common trick to hitting on girls, turn something they say about you around on them to make it seem silly. It's like if someone says "I met Michael Jordan" you say "Oh yeah, well my brother's cousin's sister's boyfriend once had a milkshake with Shaquille O'Neill"
"It's not confidential"- adding to the joke 'everybody knows about it'
I've got potential- can either mean he's starting to break the ice and get somewhere, or he's trying ot convince her to give him a chance.
"Pace yourself from me
I said maybe baby please "she's lightened up now but he's turned it around now telling HER to take it easy
"But I just don't know now "
When all I wanna do is try He's saying to her that he doesn't know if he wants her now that she's drug up all these rumors about him...but what he's actually thinking that all he wants to do is try and "bring it on back"
"A rushin', a rushin' around " basically just saying how he's going around in circles with this conversation."
Ok so maybe a little off there towards the end. but I think I'm MUCH closer that the "gay, crossdresser, butch-looking girlfriend" theories, which are a little too literal interperatations. -
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anonymous Dec 11th 2006, 03:14 report
uh. you guys are seriously overreading.
"somebody told me that you had a boyfriend
that looks like a girlfriend
that I had in feb..." etc.
"it's not confidential
that I've got potential..."
what he means is that the girl whom he's talking about has a boyfriend who isn't much of a man, and that he'd do a better job, hence the potential thing.
he's just dissing her current boyfriend, toots.
xtine. -
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anonymous Sep 28th 2006, 23:26 report
The setting of this song is at a nightclub. The narrator sees a girl that some of his friends know and he is interested in her. But somebody told him that she is a lesbian but he isn't quite sure. You know he is at a nightclub bc there is music playing, "17 tracks and I've had it with this game" and "heaven aint close in a place like this." he's interested in her bc he's breaking his back trying to know her name. There are rumors that she might be a lesbian, "somebody told me, that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend that I had in february of last year." but he's not sure if they are true, "never thought i'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight." "but all I want to do is try" indicates that he doesn't care what somebody told him, and he wants to get to know the girl better, she may or may not be a lesbian. We don't know, in fact, no one does bc it is a rumor.
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anonymous Mar 25th, 19:28 report
Well since he murdered Jenny in his 3 part murder trilogy, I don't think she's lived to have other relationships. And he was never in a relationship with Jenny because she didn't share his feelings.
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river12 Aug 1st 2012, 20:51 report
My uncle went to high school with Brandon and From what he says Brandon was Bisexual and very shy during classes but during lunch he would hang out with some loud punkers. He had weird looking girlfriends and boyfriends. The guys he dated and hang out with looked like girls. They would wear make-up and had long black hair and looked very fem. He dated this guy and what happen was that the guy he was dating ended up dating his ex or a girl he liked. My Uncle was in water polo and he also says he dated a guy named Andrew. He only knows about those two since they would talk during math.
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anonymous Jul 29th 2012, 13:29 report
You have got to be a complete idiot not to realize what this song means.
"Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential"
Basically the girl he is hitting on is dating his ex girlfriend! Hence the "Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year"
But at the same time it might not be true "It's not confidential," There for he has "potential" to get her.
She's a lesbian, duh. -
anonymous May 5th 2012, 17:13 report
anyone who has been to bangkok knows heaven ain't close in a place like that. The strip clubs there have a huge mix of "boy girls". many of them are surprisingly attractive (until you see the adam's apple). I think the singer is just suggesting that regardless if she is a "he or a she" she looks like a girlfriend that he had.
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anonymous May 4th 2012, 21:37 report
I do see the whole nightclub way but the video is just them on a beach singing so...
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Keelie.Whitford Apr 4th 2012, 02:16 report
To me it seems like he's just saying that hes found this girl he likes, but he recognizes her.
He goes to talk to her and he's like hey.. arent you that one chick? Look somebody told me that I dated.. your boyfriend- which is odd because last year in february.. he.. was my girlfriend- meaning that I very likely dated a man..
Its not.. ANYTHING BIG- but I do have potential, nothing wrong with that I guess- but I was really wondering.
Yeah.. thats what it sounds like to me. -
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anonymous Feb 16th 2012, 18:01 report
I think the girl he went out with was bi. Hence explaining the him going out with Jenny or whoever. now he is hitting on a girl at the club and someone told him that his ex is dating. Now his head is spinning because he does not know if this girl is toying with him or it is just a rumor
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anonymous Dec 6th 2011, 00:10 report
I believe I read that Brandon wrote this about a girl who he was seeing that cheated on him.
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anonymous Dec 5th 2011, 15:46 report
Or maybe he just heard a rumor about his ex girlfriend getting in a lesbian relationship (well, that would drive me crazy)and so maybe because he wants to find out if she really did, or why or maybe because he's jealous
he founds that other girl (his ex girlfriend's new girlfriend) and tries to get to know her by pretending his just some random guy who's hittin on her. Or maybe he just wants revenge and is really hittin on her (imagine his ex girlfriend finding out her lesbian girlfriend cheated on her with her ex boyfriend).
And all this "somebody told me that...." is never said, just in his head, while he keeps on trying. -
anonymous Jul 17th 2011, 16:25 report
this is sooo simple
the song is about a guy going to a club, who sees a girl and is attracted to her "braking my back just to knw ur name"
he's trying to talk to her.. then some one told him a rumor that she was dating one of his ex ...."Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around"
and the rumor is going around fast.
you ppl look to deep into it -
anonymous Jun 6th 2011, 13:32 report
i think its about brandon hitting on this girl saying that she had a boyfriend that he had. it sounds more like hes the gay one in the this song, look at the lyrics:
somebody told me you had BOYFRIEND who LOOKS like a girlfriend that I HAD(he did say "I HAD")in february of last year.
just take out the "who looks like a girlfriend" and its much less confusing. its not "girlfriend who looked like a boyfriend that i had" its "BOYFRIEND (who looks like a girl friend) THAT I HAD IN FEBRUARY" basically: he had a boyfriend, who apparently looked like a girl (friend) last february, and so did the person hes talking to.
i just needed to break it down -
sunnybrook May 30th 2011, 07:09 report
I think this song is about a boy that looks like a girl and he had a little crush on her.
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anonymous Apr 14th 2011, 00:26 report
So the singer once had a girlfriend (back in february) who looked like a man. lol peace.
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anonymous Feb 22nd 2011, 13:25 report
I don't believe the top comments are true, he made up the rumor, as something to quickly say back to her, when she said, "somebody told me you were a huge player", so why would he be fussing saying he doesn't want a rumor to ruin his night, although you have stated that he made it up, and then said he diddnt want the the rumor to ruin his night, so that conclusion really failed.
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anonymous Feb 13th 2011, 15:47 report
Why do some of you think he dissing his ex? he is saying (dripping with "irony") her BOYFRIEND is his ex, not her.
the TITLE of the song itself is pretty obvious: "Somebody Told Me"
the song is about rumors, it probably takes place in a club, but nowhere does it suggest that he has been with this chick before. -
anonymous Dec 28th 2010, 10:39 report
The song is about a guy hitting on a stripper in a strip club.
The lyrics are the kind of inane crap strippers say to while away the hours and dances.
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anonymous Dec 3rd 2010, 13:25 report
Am I the only one who interpreted the lines:
"Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year"
as him having dated a person who had a sex change. The girl he is hitting on has been rumored to be dating his ex, but since he hasn't seen his ex since February for all he knows she could've had a sex change.
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anonymous Nov 16th 2010, 04:10 report
i think it is about a guy (the narrator) who sees his ex, with another girl.
And it turns out that his ex is going out with another of his ex's (whom he dated in february) -
anonymous Nov 9th 2010, 22:25 report
Okay its pretty obvious he's hitting on a girl. In an interview he was asked what the meaning was, brandon flowers said to read the chorus in a straight line over and over again:"Somebody told me you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that I had in february of last year" to make it easier, take away the "who looked like a girlfriend" part, because its just an unnecessary description. That leaves you with "somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that I had in february of last year." I'm not saying hed gay but he writes a lot of homo-y songs (where the white boys dance, andy you're a star, the ballad of micheal valentine)
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