Versions Of You (Love Friend & The One I Don’t Know) - Mp3
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Theme:
Recognizing Different Versions of Someone, Setting Boundaries & Choosing Which Connections Can Move Forward
Description: 7:12
“Versions Of You (Love, Friend & The One I Don’t Know)” explores the realization that one person can occupy very different places in our lives depending on which version of them we are experiencing. Rather than reducing someone to either good or bad, the song separates three distinct relationships the narrator has experienced with the same man: the one she loved, the friend she still values, and the version whose behaviour she no longer recognizes or accepts.
The One I Loved represents a deep romantic connection filled with warmth, patience, understanding and a feeling of emotional home. After carrying that love across twenty-two years, she accepts that this version belongs to her past. Letting him go does not mean declaring that the love was false. It means recognizing that something can have been beautiful and real without being where her future belongs.
The Friend represents the connection she believes could still have a place in her life. But friendship cannot simply be the absence of romance. For her, it requires communication, honesty, presence, mutual effort, warmth and genuine caring. She is willing to carry that friendship forward, but only if it is healthy for both people and exists as a real friendship rather than another cycle of waiting and uncertainty.
The One I Don’t Know is the version characterized by silence, ghosting, distance and emotional back-and-forth. This is the version she chooses to leave behind because continuing to carry that relationship would mean continuing to carry the hurt it creates.
The move from New Brunswick to Newfoundland becomes symbolic as well as physical. She is not merely changing provinces; she is entering a new stage of her life—becoming active and social again, meeting people, dancing, laughing, making memories and rediscovering her “social-butterfly wings.”
Importantly, the song acknowledges that these are only the versions she personally experienced. She does not claim to know every side of him or who he may be to other people. She simply recognizes what each version has meant in her own life and decides what she is—and is not—willing to carry forward.
The central message: I can honour the man I loved, welcome the genuine friend, and walk away from the version that hurts me. Loving someone does not require accepting every version of them—and moving forward means choosing which relationships still have a healthy place in my life.