flora cash - You're Somebody Else Lyrics Meaning

“I saw the part of you
That only when you're older you will see too
You will see too”

i saw the parts of you that you’ll only see when you’ve grown and matured as a person, and until then you’ll never understand.

“I held the better cards
But every stroke of luck has got a bleed through
It's got a bleed through”

Although i tried fixing things, sometimes some things just can’t be fixed.

“You held the balance of the time
That only blindly I could read you
But I could read you”

you slipped and showed me who you really are, not who you claimed to be. although there were warning signs, i was blinded by love.

“It's like you told me
Go forward slowly
It's not a race to the end”

you eventually confessed to me that you were never really ready for this, and to further take things slow and use caution.

“Well you look like yourself
But you're somebody else
Only it ain't on the surface
Well you talk like yourself
No, I hear someone else though
Now you're making me nervous”

you look like yourself but you’re actually a different person, deep down. though you look the same on the outside, you don’t act the same as you once did and now i’m getting a little bit scared because of that.

“You were the better part
Of every bit of beating heart that I had
Whatever I had”

i never fully fixed the broken parts of me, so the parts you had “fixed” are now broken again.

“I finally sat alone
Pitch black flesh and bone
Couldn't believe that you were gone”

i took a step back to evaluate everything and realized that you are now not the same person you once claimed to be. and that this relationship was no longer what it once was.