I Can See You (TV)
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- I Can See You (TV) / Mine (Eras Tour, Liverpool)
- I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) / I Can See You (TV) (Eras Tour, Warsaw)
“You brush past me in the hallway And you don't think I, I, I can see ya, do ya?”
The whole song is built on a sight the other person does not credit, and the question format keeps insisting on it. What the speaker sees is largely imagined rather than witnessed, so the seeing here is appetite as much as observation.
“You brush past me in the hallway And you don't think I, I, I can see ya, do ya?”
Two people pass without acknowledging each other, the speaker noticing while the addressee assumes he is unseen. A corridor is built for exactly this, letting people cross paths in motion without stopping, and the song turns that into its central asymmetry. The stuttered "I, I, I" enacts the noticing as it happens.
“'Cause I can see you waitin' down the hall from me”
The addressee waits at the far end and the speaker can still see him. Here the corridor works as a sightline rather than a route: its length is the point, proving that the looking survives the distance. The hallway becomes the song's spatial figure for watching someone who does not know he is watched.
“That I can see you throw your jacket on the floor”
The jacket thrown on the floor is a small flash of intimacy, the careless domestic gesture she pictures in vivid detail.