How Can I? Lyrics

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