Sentence:  It comes to you that probably he did feel that way to let you use him like you did when you could n't have Gratt Shafer ; that he must have since he <WSD>was</WSD> there like the radio for you to turn on or snap off when you got tired of him , that other guy . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)