Somebody That I Used To Know (Bardcore | Medieval Style Cover with Vocals)
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Published 2020-06-21
“Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye
Arranged and Performed by Hildegard von Blingin, featuring Friar Funk
Well met, strangers, and ever so glad to see you, old friends! Here's a banger from 8 years ago, but like you've never heard it before.
I’m trying my very best to put out a song once a week while your interest in Bardcore continues, and will continue to do so for as long as I can. Your support sustains me, I really mean that. I'm slowly making some moves towards getting this music on Spotify, so hang tight on that front. I'm also hoping to get some instrumental versions up for use as karaoke tracks or background music for gaming.
The art used is a modified image from the Tacuinum Sanitatis.
Lyrics:
Now and then I think of when we were together
Eros surely hit the apple of mine eye
I believed thou wert right for me,
but felt so lonely in thy company
But that was love and ‘tis an ache I still remember
One becomes enamoured with a certain kind of sadness
This resignation to the end, ever the end
When we found we could not make amends
Thou declared we would e’er be friends
But I concede that I was fain to be parted
Was there cause to cast me off?
Act as though it never happened and that we were nothing
In sooth I do need thy love
But thou makest me a stranger and that feels so rough
Hadst thou need to stoop so low?
To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters
I need no longer write them, though
Now thou art somebody whom I used to know
I lament the many times that thou impugn’d my honour
But maintained it was ever something I had done
No more shall I live that way
Uncertain what thy words bewray
Thou said that if I were to go
I would not find thee pining for somebody whom thou used to know
Was there cause to cast me off?
Act as if it never happened and that we were nothing
I do not even need thy love
But thou makest me stranger and that feels so rough
Hadst thou need to stoop so low
To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters
I need no longer write them, though
For now thou art somebody whom I used to know
Now thou art somebody whom I used to know
All Comments (21)
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When your friend gets exiled for disrespecting the church.
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When she stops replying to your homing pigeons
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Damn I still can’t believe they modernized this song.
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As a simple laborer toiling away in the fields for my feudal overlords, I hereby confirm that this tune is indeed spontaneously combustible
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Damn. The pain of when a guy refuses thy letters. He hast ghosted thee.
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When she marries the earl she told you not to worry about
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the dedication to the lyrical changes is remarkable. the "To send a wagon for thine minstrel" bar is just amazing
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"I lament the many times that thou impugned my honor" UGH what a line. Nobody ever uses 'impugned' anymore, and it's so satisfying when it finally comes back around.
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Her: "What´s your taste in music?" Me: "It´s complicated."
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When Juliet from the tavern doesn’t contact you back via carrier pigeon
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Sounds like you just entered a potion shop in a Zelda game
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Why is this the best version of this song I've ever heard?
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When she moves to another village and starts dating the blacksmith
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“To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters.”
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I love how this version flips the genders: Hildegard's angelic voice for Gotye's part and the Friar's deeper, resonant voice for Kimbra.
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I don't believe what I just heard. I could never have imagined this song could be more beautiful but here it is.
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When you caught her showing her ankles to someone else.
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"Anyhow, allow me to serenade thee with "wonderwall""- Some heathen
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Only 10th century kids will remember
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They need to play this at a Renaissance fair. That would be absolutely awesome! 😂
