What You Really Are

Author's Note: In this piece I analyzed the lyrics to the song How You Remind Me by Nickelback.  This song is about a guy, singing to a girl who left him and it discusses his various problems.  I decided to argue right back with a creative piece in the girl's point of view.  I really wanted to show how different both stories are and how the point of view changes the song in a large way.  Below are the song lyrics (italicized) and below that is my creative piece in the girl's point of view (not italicized).

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me

This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breaking

And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"

Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no

It's not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have dang near killed you

And this is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breaking

And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"

Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no

Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me

This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breaking

And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"

Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet?
Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet?
Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet?
Yeah, yeah
No, no

What you really are?  Do you want to know what you really are?  For the past two years you have used me, pushing me away and pulling my right back in whenever you please.  How dare you say that I remind you of the selfish conniving person you really are.  I want to be nothing like you, and my life would have been much more pleasant without you in it.  I cannot believe you are out telling these lies!  How could I have broken your heart?  You have no heart!  You took my heart and threw it at a wall, shattering it into a million pieces, and you just watched the shards fall to the floor.  One night, I just reached my breaking point.  You were, as usual, polishing off bottle after bottle of alcohol, the very reason for the demise of this relationship.  Then, you started hurling insults like there was no tomorrow.  It was just the normal slur of “You need to lose weight” or “Stop being so weak”.  Normally I would apologise and sneak off to my room, but this night something snapped.  The gears in my head started turning.  This has happened too many times, and I’m not going to stand for it.  So I told you off.  How’s that for the weak little chick you keep around “just cause”.  It felt good, really good, but nothing can compensate for the hurt and anguish you’ve cause me.  Don’t even try to tell me “I love you”  you don’t even know what love means.  I feel no love for you.  I feel nothing towards you.  So i’m leaving, without regret.