Cat Power – Say

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  General Comment:"when no-one is around love will always love you"
  
  
  best part of the song. hands down.

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  General Comment:"when no-one is around love will always love you"
  
  
  best part of the song. hands down.

  Flag jgormanon December 15, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:To me, it seems that its about people lying about who they are in order to stay with each other. They have great love for each other but in that they lost themselves. And coming clean about everything destroys that life they built for themselves.

  Flag ninjitcuon November 19, 2008   Link

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    When a life is built on lies, what quality of life does one truly have...and for how long? "Coming clean" is about honest with others and oneself. It's about growing up, maturing emotionally, learning skills to flourish, and taking risks, which are always interesting. How boring it is to settle. How boring it is to give up oneself, to give up on long-range goals, and to keep doing the same action over and over again but expecting a different result. People lie to GET people into their lives. Then they lose those people due to the lies.

    Flag IllToast2Thaton January 12, 2013  
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  General Comment:Personally, I think it's about fully communicating the full complexities of who you are. When your time for input comes up for a response to direction A, it is easy to share a summarized opinion specialized for that moment. Your input may be different when summarized for direction B, though. The meanings of both input could seem completely contradictory to outsiders and will lead to your ostracization.
  This song is tough to read into, though. For instance, I have no idea how the first verse correlates with the rest. So I'm probably wrong. I really want to know the meaning to this, though. =/

  Flag StopDanceGoon August 15, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:in my eyes this song is about people losing themselves
  and just saying what whoever theyre talking to would want them to.
  exhaustion turning them mindless.
  and the double confessions are because
  they have learned to say what someone wants to hear.
  they play friends to whomever is there.
  which causes contridictions.

  Flag yellowhairfunnybearon July 15, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:Honesty, truth and beauty. Being true, no matter what the cost. The lyrics seem to be almost advice to somebody who has forgotten who they are, or more so chosen to ignore it.
  "When no-one is around, love will always love you."
  Losing the ones around you and not giving a damn because you know you were being true to yourself.
  "never give up, no never give up
  if you're looking for something easy
  you might as well give it up"
  Again, truth is not always convenient, but if you always take what is most easy to obtain then you might as well just take the even easier route of giving up.

  Flag number7on December 20, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song is about people who's dishonest with themselves and others... How that finally makes them fall down in life.

  Flag Azraelaon June 08, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:SO AMAZING

  Flag g0wthefl0won March 22, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:maybe its about learning to really be true to what you feel and think instead of fooling yourself into feeling and thinking what you think others want you to... maybe?
  
  its an insanely beautiful song and an insane topic

  Flag cara_donnaon February 22, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song is about how some people say more than one thing instead of just only one.

  Flag bjorton October 22, 2006   Link

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