Say It to Me Now

Hansard wrote it, and it first appeared on The Frames' Fitzcarraldo in 1995 as track six at 5:34. The Once version, track 13 of the soundtrack at 2:35, is Hansard alone with a guitar, recorded in 2006. In the film it is the opening song, sung by his busker character alone on an empty street at night. One memorial blog reads it as starting as a plea to a lover and turning toward a higher power, which is that author's reading. MusicBrainz also lists an un-amplified live version of 4:04 on a bootleg. We could not tell which version our upload is.