Can you change "to" with comma?

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Hello. So as the title says, can you change "to" with comma? Can you say something like this "I'm happy, give you a hug" or something like this...:?:

Thank you.
 
No, you can't do that.
 
Hello. So as the title says, can you change "to" with comma? Can you say something like this "I'm happy, give you a hug" or something like this...:?:

Thank you.

Your title and question should have been "Can you change "to" to a comma?"

If you want to use "with", you could say "Can we replace "to" with a comma?"
 
Thank you for your answers.

Your title and question should have been "Can you change "to" to a comma?"

If you want to use "with", you could say "Can we replace "to" with a comma?"

Yeah, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out.
The question still remains. Instead of making up examples, I will give you the sentence that I don't really understand and maybe you can help me figure it out and point out the key elements of this sentence to it's true meaning.
"Trouble is the pain grows double, give a d*mn what you say"
It's a sentence from a song, and I don't understand the full meaning of it. Does it mean that it is a trouble that the pain is growing and that there is a trouble to give a d*mn? Is the word "double" key element that connects phrase after comma with the phrase before it? Because in my opinion the artist says that he doesn't give a d*mn but I'm just trying to figure it out how do you make phrase negative without say don't/doesn't. I hope you'll understand what I was trying to say and I apologize if I made some mistakes in my post, I'm still learning.
Thank you for your help.

P.S. Moderators, I tried my best to censor the bad language in this sentence so if I didn't do enough, can you edit instead of not posting the post? I think the idea of what word should be in it is pretty clear. Thank you.
 
" give a d*mn what you say"
This doesn't make sense. It's a song lyric, it's not supposed to make sense.
 
"Trouble is the pain grows double, give a d*mn what you say"

I understand that as "the trouble is, the pain is twice as bad as it was. You should (or possibly 'I don't') care what you think."

"The trouble is x" means "x is what bothers me."
 
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