you know, i know i'm wrong, but i always got the impression that Cathy was Kate (from, obviously, the Ben Folds Five song Kate.)
You know, like, when he was crushing over Kate, she didn't really know him that well, and he just adored her from a distance. Maybe he had only heard her name being said- never seen it written- and assumed that Cate, short for Cathy, short for Catherine, was Kate, short for Kathy, short for Katherine.
It always seemed reassured by the line "she's different when it's just me and her", like, he had been wanting her (or wanting to BE her) for so long, and when he eventually became friends with her, and showed his friends, they didn't get her like he did at all.
Also: "So obsessed was I and self-absorbed that I/ didn't see that she was/ crying". That line could also work with it; that because he's spent so like seeing Kate, and saying how "I wanna be Kate" (being self-obsessed), he didn't really notice what was really going on inside her.
Don't worry, I know its know what Folds was thinking-- but darn if it don't work for me as a tragic-sequal to a feel-good-hit!
you know, i know i'm wrong, but i always got the impression that Cathy was Kate (from, obviously, the Ben Folds Five song Kate.)
You know, like, when he was crushing over Kate, she didn't really know him that well, and he just adored her from a distance. Maybe he had only heard her name being said- never seen it written- and assumed that Cate, short for Cathy, short for Catherine, was Kate, short for Kathy, short for Katherine.
It always seemed reassured by the line "she's different when it's just me and her", like, he had been wanting her (or wanting to BE her) for so long, and when he eventually became friends with her, and showed his friends, they didn't get her like he did at all.
Also: "So obsessed was I and self-absorbed that I/ didn't see that she was/ crying". That line could also work with it; that because he's spent so like seeing Kate, and saying how "I wanna be Kate" (being self-obsessed), he didn't really notice what was really going on inside her.
Don't worry, I know its know what Folds was thinking-- but darn if it don't work for me as a tragic-sequal to a feel-good-hit!