Now That We Don't Talk (TV)

“What do you tell your friends we shared dinners, long weekends with?”

Names the shared meal as the object of the post-breakup property dispute. The relationship is reduced to what can be inventoried by the friend asking after it, and the dinner takes its place alongside the long weekends as one of the categorisable units the speaker is now refusing to credit to the partner who is asking around about her. The dinner here is jointly-claimed past, what each ex now tells about the relationship.

“You went to a party, I heard from everybody”

Off-stage party register, the speaker is told about the gathering rather than attending; the social network ("everybody") becomes the party's surveillance proxy and the song's evidence of estrangement.