You got addicted to a certain kind of power
By taxing us until we threw out all your tea
So when we found that we could not be free
We came together in search for liberty
But I'll admit that I was glad that we were over

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But we really had to cut you off
You violated our trust and treated us like we were nothing
And we don't even need your help
But you made us house your soldiers and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to impose taxes
Have your soldiers shoot our friends or suspend our legislature
We know that we don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that we used to know
Now you're just somebody that we used to know
Now you're just somebody that we used to know

Now and then we think of all the times you screwed us over
You had us bleeding on the streets in Massachusetts
And we don't wanna live that way
Trash-talking every act you make
You limited all our trade routes
And we won't pay your taxes 'cuz you're  somebody that we used to know

[chorus]

But we really had to cut you off
You violated our trust and treated us like we were nothing
And we don't even need your help
But you made us house your soldiers and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to impose taxes
Have your soldiers shoot our friends or suspend our legislature
We know that we� don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, we used to know
(Somebody) Now you're just somebody that we used to know
Somebody, we used to know
(Somebody) Now you're just somebody that we used to know
we used to know, that we used to know, we used to know somebody