Freaking Me Out

Basic info

Album: Get Your Heart On!
Songwriters: Pierre Bouvier, Chuck Comeau, Julian Emery, Jim Irvin
Additional collaboration: Brian Howes (production), Alex Gaskarth (additional vocals)
Length: 3:05

Meaning of the song

“It kind of talks about when you have a friend, or a girlfriend or boyfriend, family member or whatever, someone that you’re really tight with and then suddenly they completely change and become a totally new, weird person. And you’re like: ‘You’re not the person that I used to know. You changed completely and probably for the worse. And you have just become a shadow of your former self.'”

– Chuck Comeau –

Song lyrics

What the hell’s going on
Have you gone undercover?
You were here, now you’re not
Been replaced by another
Cause it’s still your face
But there’s something strange
Not the one I remember
Can you please explain
Did they wipe your brain?
Is this gonna be forever?

Cause everything you say
Everything you do
Is freaking me out, freaking me out
You know we used to be the same
Who the hell are you
Freaking me out, freaking me out
Then I swear I thought I knew you
But all that was yesterday
And now you turn it around, what’s that about?
Cause you’re freaking me out, freaking me out

Think you’re real, but you’re fake
Think you’re deep, but you’re shallow
You’ve become, what you hate
Now you’re lost, just a shadow
So we pull your strings
Cause it makes no sense
That you act like you’re better
You can say these things
To your so-called friends
And they just might think you’re clever

But everything you say
Everything you do
Is freaking me out, freaking me out
You know we used to be the same
Who the hell are you
Freaking me out, freaking me out
Then I swear I thought I knew you
But all that was yesterday
And now you turn it around, what’s that about?
Cause you’re freaking me out, freaking me out

Wake up, wake up, wake up
Snap out of it
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Snap out of it
Wake up, wake up, wake up

Everything you say
Everything you do
Is freaking me out, freaking me out
You know we used to be the same
Who the hell are you
Freaking me out, freaking me out
And now
Everything you say
Everything you do
Is freaking me out, freaking me out

So why’d you play your games
Who’re you trying to fool?
Freaking me out, freaking me out
And I swear I thought I knew you
But all that was yesterday
And now you turn it around, what’s that about?
Cause you’re freaking me out, freaking me out