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How Are You True

Cage the Elephant →Tell Me I'm Pretty
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Based on a real story, Matt Shultz sings of meeting a musician named True. The song features philosophical self-reflection, accompanied by the depressing idea of a wasted lifetime. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, lead singer Matt Schultz answers the question: What’s the story being “How Are You True?” "I was coming back from New York to Nashville and there was this young kid, super flustered, on the [airplane’s] jet bridge. The flight attendant asked him if he was going to Nashville to get a record deal and he was like

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