Can You Hear Me Lyrics

Lyric discussion by KarenZevon 

Cover art for Can You Hear Me lyrics by David Bowie

It's an amazing song from the Master. It's chilling how great he was on these love songs, it's like he only ever sang these ones! the line "When I'm checking you out one day, to see if I'm Faking it all" is beyond amazing; he went with the an exceptional choice of line here.

@KarenZevon what do you think that line means... "Checking you out one day to see if I'm faking it all"? Does it imply false love, or that the dedicatee of this song is the only one he really lives?

@jake102068 I think he means that with time passing he keeps tabs on her just to see if the feeling from the past was real, and the fact that he remembers all the heartache when he does that, shows that he in fact did not fake it and that love was the real thing.