How Can I?
Transposed. Capo on the III, if you want to play along with the record.
HOW CAN I? (Steve Hackett, from Please Dont Touch 1978)
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The local radio says sorry time to go
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But I don't sleep too well
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Where are those Southern Belles?
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Tryin to get a telephone line through South Caroline
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Your call may bring somebody down for miles around.
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I'm watching her eyes again.
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I won't use no fountain pen.
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The lady isn't here. The message wasn't clear.
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She left an hour ago, screamed from the floor below.
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Mother nature never gives in, she wants you to sing
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But how can I go on just singing this song.
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My car's out of gas again.
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Hurry home to see my friend
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Money won't help you to win
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a new look at things
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Loving can bring you down so you fall
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Then why do you still try to get up at all?
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Your good and bad side showing through
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Problems are a part of you
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You must love someone else or face life by yourself
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You may expect a call. She's waiting in the hall
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See the garden grows and it grows, nobody else knows
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And you can wear just any old thing,
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the show can begin
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I'm falling asleep to dream.
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No more hills to climb it seems Mmm
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Money won't help you to win
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a new look at things.
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You never give in, So why don't you sing?
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But how can I go on just singing this song?
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My car's out of gas again. I'll be home
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to see my friend Mmm