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Old 07-01-2015, 09:59 PM   #161 (permalink)
Josef K
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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy View Post
Interesting interpretation. I've always felt it was a sort of cocky proclamation that her life will be worse without him, which I never really thought of as misogynistic. I don't know enough about Cat Stevens in general to be able to make a stance on what he was intending with the song
Yeah, maybe. It's just that it's sort of tough for me to imagine a woman writing that same song about a man.
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