Cat Power – 3 Times

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  General Comment:She loves the guy. The guy fucked her but changed her for another girl that she says is like a "chinese, is impressive and is in distress" etc...Probably they work at the same place, so she cant stand to look at him.

  Flag toltec444on September 02, 2012   Link

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  My Interpretation:I think it's less about a relationship, and more about gossip and how politically incorrect things can be in casual conversation, yet we'll just ignore it and turn our head, as if it's not a big deal.
  
  The specific example that plays out in my head when I hear this song is that of Chan talking to somebody about this Asian girl, the topic of their gossip. I think that they try to seem casual once the Asian girl gets physically closer to them, as if they weren't just talking about her.
  
  Just my interpretation. Not nearly as deep as all of yours, but whatever. Sometimes things just aren't as deep as we'd like them to be, perhaps.

  Flag telesc0peon August 30, 2012   Link

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  My Interpretation:I take this as she is chastising an ex-lover who has left her for someone else; maybe a boyfriend who is with a new woman and now she is seeing them together. "She's like a little Chinese / She is Chinese" — that says to me that she is attacking the other woman, possibly making fun of the way she looks as a defense mechanism ("maybe it would be nicer if I said Japanese"). It also sounds like she is seeing them together now ("she comes around you and me" ), but doesn't want to look at it because it hurts her ("I will, I will, I will look away").

  Flag scottdoesntknow628on November 30, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:"i'll make sure i look,...away" i imagine that being what autumninlove said about not being able to face this person.the part where she sings "She comes around you and me" makes me think it could be someone besides her lover,someone cheats or considers it and the end is never seeing this person again.hence the title 3 times.walking circles around me.. this person is watching her?

  Flag staygoldenon August 14, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I'm not sure what Chan meant when she wrote this, but I interpret it as how we're so preoccupied with what other's think about us in everything we do that we can't face it. Whether it be an attraction to someone and we can't look them in the eye when we see them or maybe we see someone different from us, and we worry ourselves with what we say about them.
  
  I don't know, maybe it's just me.

  Flag autumninloveon December 28, 2004   Link

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