I mean, Cat, you’re really being awful to this girl. Just to help me dry the tears that I’ve criedīut baby, I’ll try to love again, but I know Let’s say people who have nothing good to say about their ex-partners either have incredibly low self-esteem for not walking away and have harboured a lot of resentment as a result, or were probably just as selfish as their partners but cannot see it themselves. I mean, you are complaining about me not being a good girlfriend or treating you right (I won’t dispute this as I understand that is how you feel, and I respect that), yet you are happy to mislead this girl just in the hopes that somehow it will stitch you up and you’ll be as good as new in no time? You’re happy to put this girl through exactly what you went through yourself? I don’t know about this girl, but if a guy I was interested in spoke about his ex that way, I would be running away as fast as I could. However, hearts are not like cookies that once you bite into them they can never be whole again. My first love (sorry, it wasn’t you) also left me quite damaged, and he still has a place in my heart. ’cause when it comes to being lucky she’s cursedīut when it comes to being loved she’s first The first cut is the deepest, baby I know Love is not something you can just try to do with the next girl who smiles at you in a bar and looks reasonably attractive. I do admire your courage in saying that our break-up has left you quite scarred however, I find it deeply distressing that you would want to start a new relationship by telling a girl that you “will try to love again”. Let her go, don’t awaken her love just to leave her. This is disrespectful towards this girl who all she wants is to love you. In the first verse, you say:Īnd she’s taking almost all that I’ve gotĬat, the use of “would have” implies an impossibility (a hypothetical situation in the past), so already in the first line you are sweet-talking this girl into wanting to be with you when you KNOW you will not love her. Let’s break it down because there is quite a lot to be concerned about. I am, however, deeply concerned about some of the content of your song, how it portrays me as a woman, and the image it sends to women across the world now that it has become a no. Now, I’m not going to complain about the amount paid by Ms Arnold, although I would have expected the pain of our breakup to be worth at least £100. You can understand my surprise when I first heard the song and subsequently found out that you had written it and sold it to Ms Arnold for 30 quid. I understood that being a singer-songwriter and all that, you would take it rather a little on the dramatic side and, sure enough, you told me about how I was your first and only love and that I had “cut a deep wound in you that would never heal because you never really recover from your first love” but that “what really matters to me is that you are happy and you blossom in life, and I really mean that”.
#The first cut is the deepest cat stevens professional
As I explained, there is a constant internal struggle inside me between wanting to pursue my professional ambitions and the need to feel protected in the big, hairy arms of a male lover (preferably one that earns over £75k a year so that I don’t stress about money and can pursue my artistic interests). I hope you know it hurt to say goodbye for me too. As I recall, you seemed to be quite understanding and supportive, even yelling “fuck the patriarchy!” at one point. Arnold came on the radio with her new hit ‘The first cut is the deepest” and, you know, it really surprised me because the lyrics reminded me of our last conversation last summer when I told you that I needed some space to explore what I wanted to do with my life without the ever looming unconscious fear that I would end up fat, ugly and alone if I didn’t marry a man by the age of twenty-five a fear instilled in me from birth by gender stereotyping in our patriarchal society , as I explained to you. I was recently driving my car down to the beach to catch some waves when P.P.
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